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MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench

Retrieve Mass Spectrometry Data from Metabolomics Workbench

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 0.99.1

Metabolomics Workbench is one of the main public repositories for storage of metabolomics experiments. The MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench package provides functionality to retrieve and represent mass spectrometry (MS) data from Metabolomics Workbench. Data files are downloaded and cached locally avoiding repetitive downloads. MS data from metabolomics experiments can thus be directly and seamlessly integrated into R-based analysis workflows with the Spectra and MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench package.

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench")

Details

MaintainerGabriele Tomè <gabriele.tome@eurac.edu>
AuthorGabriele Tomè [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-6068>, fnd: MetaRbolomics4Galaxy project (CUP: D53C25001030003) co-funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano under the Joint Projects South Tyrol–Germany 2025 program.), Philippine Louail [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5429-6846>), Johannes Rainer [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7147>)
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench/issues
Downloads rank26
Source branchdevel
biocViewsDataImport, Infrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageMsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench_0.99.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench_0.99.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench_0.99.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)MsBackendMetabolomicsWorkbench_0.99.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), Spectra (>= 1.15.12)

Imports: rvest, httr2, curl, ProtGenerics, BiocFileCache, S4Vectors, methods, MsCoreUtils (>= 1.23.9), jsonlite, plyr, tidyr, archive

Suggests: testthat, rmarkdown, mzR, knitr, BiocStyle