About Maltcms and ChromA

What is Maltcms?

Maltcms, short for "Modular Application Toolkit for Chromatography Mass-Spectrometry" is an application framework mainly suited for developers working in the domain of bioinformatics for metabolomics and proteomics. Its aim is to provide reusable, efficient datastructures, abstracting from the various low-level data-formats like netcdf (ANDIMS), mzXML, mzData and mzML and providing consistent access to data features like mass spectra, chromatograms and metadata. Furthermore, Maltcms provides a platform for the implementation and execution of processing pipelines. New and existing algorithms can be easily implemented or included and executed together with existing processing elements.

For a more extensive list of features, please refer to the Features section.

What is ChromA/ChromA4D?

ChromA and ChromA4D are particular pipelines of defined processing elements, which realize the typical workflow of GC-MS/LC-MS (ChromA) and GCxGC-MS (ChromA4D) data analysis.

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Future Developments

Maui

We are currently developing a rich client application, called Maui, which is based on the Netbeans RCP framework. The aim of this RCP application is, to allow manual interaction with the data, as well as visualization of raw and processed data. However, it will also be possible to define custom processing pipelines, run them as batch tasks and inspect the results, while they are being created. If you are interested to try Maui, please go to Contact.

An early preview and some screenshots of Maui are now featured on Geertjan Wielenga's blog.