MSnbase is an R/Bioconductor package that provides infrastructure for plotting, data manipulation and processing mass spectrometry and proteomics data. The project was started by Laurent Gatto in October 2010 (Mon Oct 4 23:35:23 2010, according to the git log) and has, since then, benefited from various contributions.
The official page is the Bioconductor landing page (release or devel versions). The github page page is for sharing, testing, issue tracking and forking/pulling purposes. The Bioconductor svn server, is the official repository for the working source code.
To install MSnbase
library("BiocInstaller")
biocLite("MSnbase")
If you need the github version (not recommended unless you know what you are doing)
biocLite("lgatto/MSnbase")
General questions should be asked on the
Bioconductor support forum, using
MSnbase
to tag the question. Feel also free to open a GitHub
issue.
To cite the MSnbase
package in publications, please use:
Gatto L, Lilley KS.
MSnbase
- an R/Bioconductor package for isobaric tagged mass spectrometry data visualization, processing and quantitation. Bioinformatics. 2012 Jan 15;28(2):288-9. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr645. PubMed PMID:22113085.
Contributions to the package are more than welcome. If you want to
contribute to this package, you should follow the same conventions as
the rest of the functions whenever it makes sense to do so. Feel free
to get in touch (preferable opening a
github issue) to discuss
any suggestions. The
MSnbase
development vignette
gives some background on the class infrastructure.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.