pyQms enables universal and accurate quantification of mass spectrometry data

pyQms is an extension to Python that offers amongst other things

1. fast and accurate quantification of all high-res LC-MS data
2. full labeling and modification flexibility
3. full platform independence

Quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) is a key technique in many research areas (Yates III et al. 2009), including proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics, and lipidomics. Because all of the corresponding molecules can be described by chemical formulas, universal quantification tools are highly desirable. Here we present pyQms, an open-source software for accurate quantification of all types of molecules measurable by MS. pyQms uses isotope pattern matching which offers accurate quality assessment of the quantification and the ability to directly incorporate mass spectrometer accuracy. pyQms is, due to its universal design, applicable to every research field, labeling strategy, and acquisition technique. This opens ultimate flexibility for researchers to design experiments employing innovative and hitherto unexplored labeling strategies. Importantly, pyQms performs very well to accurately quantify partially labeled proteomes in large-scale and high-throughput, the most challenging task for a quantification algorithm.

-- Leufken, J., Niehues, A., Hippler, M., Sarin, L. P., Hippler, M., Leidel, S. A., and Fufezan, C. (2017) pyQms enables universal and accurate quantification of mass spectrometry data. MCP In Press

Link to manuscript.

http://www.mcponline.org/content/early/2017/07/20/mcp.M117.068007.abstract

At its core, pyQms is a Python module that allows a isotope pattern library to be initialized and any list of (mz, intensity) to be matched against the library, yielding a mScore.

http://pyqms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

pyQms requires Python3.4+ .

The module is freely available on pyqms.github.io or pypi, published under MIT LGPL and requires no additional modules to be installed. For fast spectra from mzML access we recommend pymzML (Bald et al. 2012). For example scripts it is necessary to install pymzML as well or change the code for alternated spectra access. For some scripts also the openpyxl module is required.

Get the latest version via github

https://github.com/pyQms/pyQms

Please cite us when using pyQms in your work.

The original publication can be found here:

Leufken, J., Niehues, A., Hippler, M., Sarin, L. P., Hippler, M., Leidel, S. A., and Fufezan, C. (2017) pyQms enables universal and accurate quantification of mass spectrometry data. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 16, 1736–1745

http://www.mcponline.org/content/16/10/1736

http://www.mcponline.org/content/early/2017/07/20/mcp.M117.068007.abstract

10.1074/mcp.M117.068007

Install requirements:

user@localhost:~$ cd pyqms
user@localhost:~/pyqms$ pip3.4 install -r requirements.txt

Install pyQms:

user@localhost:~/pyqms$ python3.4 setup.py install

pyQms can be also be installed via pip:

pip install pyqms

(You might need administrator privileges to write in the Python site-package folder. On Linux or OS X, use `sudo python setup.py install` or write into a user folder by using this command `python setup.py install --user`. On Windows, you have to start the command line with administrator privileges.)

You will require sphinx and other packages to build the documentation from scratch. We recommend to use a Python virtual environment for easy installation and use.

Run nosetests in root folder. You might need to install nose for Python3 first. Then just execute:

user@localhost:~/pyqms$ nosetests3

to test the package.

This software is under MIT license, please refer to LICENSE for full license.

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Please refer to:

Dr. Christian Fufezan

Cellzome

Molecular Discovery Research

GlaxoSmithKline

69117 Heidelberg

Germany

eMail: [email protected]