Provided by: msxpertsuite_4.1.0-1_amd64 
NAME
mineXpert — Open mass spectrometric data files of a wide variety of formats and
mine data graphically
SYNOPSIS
minexpert [options] [filename ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the mineXpert software shipped within the msXpertSuite software suite.
This program can be used to load mass spectrometry data files and show the spectral data in a plot widget
for further analysis according to a variety of available integrations. While this program can operate
integrally in a graphical mode, it is also widely scriptable using JavaScript as a scripting language. A
typical data mining session would involve the following steps/actions:
• Open a mass spectrometry file and immediately compute a TIC chromatogram, show that chromatogram in
a dedicated window. If the data are from an ion mobility mass spectrometry experiment, compute a mz
= f(dt) color map. The TIC chromatogram and the color map are then the starting points for the
mining of the data.
• Perform a wide variety of integrations to a mass spectrum or a drift spectrum. Each new spectrum is
displayed in its dedicated window (the TIC chromatogram window, the Color map window, the Mass
spectrum window and the Drift spectrum window). Each new plot (be it a TIC chromatogram, a mass
spectrum or a drift spectrum) is potentially the start of another integration such that the
analysis can drill at each step further in the depth of the data.
• Each plot has specific functions associated to it: export as a (x,y) file, automatic recording of
the relevant data of signalled peaks into a file using a specific easy-to-understand grammar,
slicing of the data file into smaller data files.
• One feature of importance is the fact that a large part of the functionalities of the program are
scriptable (JavaScript) and a powerful scripting console is available to elaborate scripts before
storing them in script files to be automatically executed.
OPTIONS
-h | --help
Displays detailed usage information and exits.
-c | --config
Display program configuration at build time and the Qt version used to build it.
-V | --Version
Print the version of the software program along the with version of the Qt libraries used to
build it.
-l | --license
Print the license of this software.
-s | --streamed
When opening one or more files in the gui, do that in streamed mode, otherwise in full.
-j | --scriptFile <filename>
Start the program and immediately run the JavaScript script.
filename ...
One or more names of files to be opened.
Bibliographic reference to be cited
Not yet published...
See also
massxpert (1),msxpertsuite-doc (7)
Useful reading
The program is documented fully in the mineXpert User Manual, that is packaged in msxpertsuite-doc. That
manual is available in the form of a PDF-formatted file (/usr/share/doc/msxpertsuite/minexpert-doc.pdf).
AUTHOR
Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> (initial writing 03 july 2017). 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. mineXpert (1)