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MsBackendMetaboLights

Retrieve Mass Spectrometry Data from MetaboLights

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.7.7

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MetaboLights is one of the main public repositories for storage of metabolomics experiments, which includes analysis results as well as raw data. The MsBackendMetaboLights package provides functionality to retrieve and represent mass spectrometry (MS) data from MetaboLights. Data files are downloaded and cached locally avoiding repetitive downloads. MS data from metabolomics experiments can thus be directly and seamlessly integrated into R-based analysis workflows with the Spectra and MsBackendMetaboLights package.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.MsBackendMetaboLights

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("MsBackendMetaboLights")

Details

MaintainerJohannes Rainer <Johannes.Rainer@eurac.edu>
AuthorJohannes Rainer [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7147>), Philippine Louail [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5429-6846>), Gabriele Tomè [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-6068>, fnd: MetaRbolomics4Galaxy project (CUP: D53C25001030003) co-funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano under the Joint Projects South Tyrol–Germany 2025 program.)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetaboLights
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetaboLights/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsDataImport, Infrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/MsBackendMetaboLights/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("MsBackendMetaboLights"):

Johannes Rainer, Philippine Louail, Gabriele Tomè. MsBackendMetaboLights: Retrieve Mass Spectrometry Data from MetaboLights. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MsBackendMetaboLights, R package version 1.7.7, https://bioconductor.org/packages/MsBackendMetaboLights.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageMsBackendMetaboLights_1.7.7.tar.gz
macOS binary (arm64)MsBackendMetaboLights_1.7.3.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)MsBackendMetaboLights_1.7.7.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), Spectra (>= 1.15.12)

Imports: curl, ProtGenerics, BiocFileCache, S4Vectors, methods, progress, utils, MsCoreUtils (>= 1.23.8)

Suggests: testthat, rmarkdown, mzR, knitr, BiocStyle

Reverse dependencies

Suggests Me (1): Chromatograms