1. Introduction

The latest Documentation was generated on: Sep 19, 2017

1.1. General information

Module to parse mzML data in Python based on cElementTree

Copyright 2010-2017 by:

M. Kösters,
J. Leufken,
Bald, Till
Niehues, Anna
S. Schulze,
K. Sugimoto,
R.P. Zahedi,
M. Hippler,
S.A. Leidel,
C. Fufezan,

1.1.1. Contact information

Please refer to:

Dr. Christian Fufezan
Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
Schlossplatz 8 , R 105
University of Muenster
Germany
Tel: +049 251 83 24861

1.2. Summary

pymzML is an extension to Python that offers
    1. easy access to mass spectrometry (MS) data that allows the rapid development of tools
    1. a very fast parser for mzML data, the standard mass spectrometry data format
    1. a set of functions to compare and/or handle spectra
    1. random access in compressed files
    1. interactive data visualization

1.3. Implementation

pymzML requires Python3.4+. The module is freely available on pymzml.github.com or pypi, published under GPL and requires no additional modules to be installed, but can optionally use numpy.

1.4. Download

Get the latest version via github
or the latest package at
The complete Documentation can be found as pdf

1.5. Citation

To be anounced

1.6. Installation

pymzML requires Python 3.4 or higher.

Note

Consider to use a Python virtual environment for easy installation and use. Further, usage of python3.4+ is recommended.

Download pzmzML using GitHub or the zip file:

  • GitHub version: Start by cloning the GitHub repository:

    user@localhost:~$ git clone https://github.com/pymzML/pymzml.git
    user@localhost:~$ cd pymzml
    user@localhost:~$ pip install -r requirements.txt
    user@localhost:~$ python setup.py install
    

If you use Windows 7 please use the ‘SDK7.1 command prompt’ for installation of pymzML to assure correct compiling of the C extensions.