MSnbase is an R/Bioconductor package that provides infrastructure for plotting, 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, in particular Sebastian Gibb and Johannes Rainer.

The official page is the Bioconductor landing page (release or devel versions). The github page page is for active development, issue tracking and forking/pulling purposes.

To get an overview of the package, see the MSnbase-demo vignette. More vignettes are available in the Articles tab.

To install MSnbase

library("BiocInstaller")
biocLite("MSnbase")

If you need the github version (not recommended unless you know what you are doing), use

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, in particular for bug reports.

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. Please do 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.