NAME

       python-mzml - mzML mass spectrometric data parsing

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the python-mzml package that packages the pymzML Python
       extension.

       pymzML is an extension to Python that offers:

       - easy access to mass spectrometry (MS) data that allows the rapid development of tools;

       - a very fast parser for mzML data, the standard in mass spectrometry data format;

       - a set of functions to compare or handle spectra.

       pymzML requires Python2.6.5+ and is fully compatible with Python3. The  module  is  freely
       available  on  pymzml.github.com  or pypi, published under LGPL and requires no additional
       modules to be installed.

       The documentation of this Python extension is packaged in the python-mzml-doc package.

EXAMPLES

       A number of useful examples are shipped within the python-mzml package and can be found at
       /usr/share/doc/python-mzml/example_scripts. A number of the examples make use of functions
       contained in get_example_file.py via an import of that file's contents. It is suggested to
       copy  this directory to a temporary place and to run python from inside that new directory
       so as to gain access to the features contained in that get_example_file.py file through an
       import (which would not work otherwise).

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE TO BE CITED

       Bald, T., Barth, J., Niehues, A., Specht, M., Hippler, M., and Fufezan, C. (2012) pymzML -
       Python  module  for  high   throughput   bioinformatics   on   mass   spectrometry   data.
       Bioinformatics, UK,28:1052-1053. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts066.

SEE ALSO

       python-mzml-doc(7).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Filippo  Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>. Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License, Version 3 (GPL-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'.

                                           October 2012                            PYTHON-MZML(7)