NAME¶

libmsnumpress — Implementations of two compression schemes for numeric data from mass spectrometers.

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the libmsnumpress software package.

The library provides implementations of 3 different algorithms, 1 designed to compress first order smooth data like retention time or M/Z arrays, and 2 for compressing non smooth data with lower requirements on precision like ion count arrays.

Bibliographic reference to be cited¶

Teleman J, Dowsey AW, Gonzalez-Galarza FF, Perkins S, Pratt B, Röst HL, Malmström L, Malmström J, Jones AR, Deutsch EW, Levander F. Numerical compression schemes for proteomics mass spectrometry data. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014 Jun;13(6):1537-42. doi: H.1074/mcp.O114.037879.

Useful reading¶

The library is documented fully in the developer documentation, that is packaged in the libmsnumpress-dev-doc package. That documentation is available in the form of HTML-formatted files (/usr/share/doc/libmsnumpress-dev-doc.pdf).

AUTHOR¶

Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>

This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> (initial writing 05 december ?). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3, published by the Free Software Foundation.

On a Debian system the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.