pymzML—Python module for high-throughput bioinformatics on mass spectrometry data

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts066
• Publication Date: 2012-02-03T01:42:17Z
• Authors: Till Bald; Johannes Barth; Anna Niehues; Michael Specht; Michael Hippler; Christian Fufezan
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; Computational Biology; Programming Languages; Mass Spectrometry; Software

Abstract Summary: pymzML is an extension to Python that offers (i) an easy access to mass spectrometry (MS) data that allows the rapid development of tools, (ii) a very fast parser for mzML data, the standard data format in MS and (iii) a set of functions to compare or handle spectra. Availability and implementation: pymzML requires Python2.6.5+ and is fully compatible with Python3. The module is freely available on http://pymzml.github.com or pypi, is published under LGPL license and requires no additional modules to be installed. Contact: [e-mail]