Listening to your mass spectrometer: An open-source toolkit to visualize mass spectrometer data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We have developed a set of tools built with open-source software that includes both a database and a visualization component to collect LC-MS/MS data and monitor quality control parameters.

Description of tool

To display LC-MS/MS data we built a parsing tool using Python and standard libraries to parse the XML files after each clinical run. The tool parses the necessary information to store a database comprised of three distinct tables. Another component to this toolkit is an interactive data visualization tool that uses the data from the database. There are 5 different visualizations that present the data based on interchangeable parameters.

Evaluation of tool

Using histogram visualization, we assessed how quality control parameters that feed our quality

SUBMITTER: Pablo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8739458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature