PyMS: A Python toolkit for processing of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data. Application and comparative study of selected tools

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  O'Callaghan, Sean ^a   De Souza, David P ^a   Isaac, Andrew ^b   Wang, Qiao ^b   Hodkinson, Luke ^c   Olshansky, Moshe ^d   Erwin, Tim ^b   Appelbe, Bill ^e   Tull, Dedreia L ^a   Roessner, Ute ^a,b   Bacic, Antony ^a,b   McConville, Malcolm J ^a,b   Likić, Vladimir A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e Victorian Parnership for Advanced Computing VPAC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CORRECTION; BATCH MODES; COMMAND LINE; COMMON IONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA PROCESSING METHODS; DATA PROCESSING SOFTWARE; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; ELECTRON IMPACT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES (GC-MS); HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENTS OF; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; NOISE SMOOTHING; NON-TARGETED; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PEAK ALIGNMENTS; PEAK DETECTION; PEAK INTEGRATION; PEAK-DECONVOLUTION; SAMPLE PROCESSING; STANDARD DATA FORMAT;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOFTWARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84861553974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-115     Document Type: Article

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