Welcome to Maltcms
Maltcms is a JAVA framework for preprocessing, alignment, analysis and visualization of data stored in open file formats used in proteomics, metabolomics, and analytical chemistry research.
Maltcms is implemented in the platform-independent JAVA programming language. The individual modules of Maltcms are managed and built using Maven.
If you want to use Maltcms in your own projects, please see the Getting Started page for more details.
Maltcms is dual licensed under either the Lesser General Public License (L-GPL v3), or, at the licensees discretion, under the terms of the Eclipse Public License (EPL v1).
Open Data Formats
- supports chromatography and mass-spectral data from netcdf (ANDI-MS/-Chrom), mzXML, mzData and mzML formats
- supports msp-format (Amdis, NIST MS Search, GMD-DB) database import for mass spectral search
- mass-spectral data export in msp format
- comma-separated-value (csv) data export for table-like data, e.g. alignments, peak tables etc.
Software Framework
- generic framework for custom processing of chromatography-mass spectrometry data
- efficient access to files of arbitrary size
- easy to use level-of-abstraction application programming interface
- creation of charts and plots for chromatograms, mass spectra, aligned and unaligned
- academic and business friendly licensing (L-GPL v3 or EPL)
Parallelization
- individual tasks can be executed concurrently
- Mpaxs provides transparent parallel execution within the same virtual machine or within a distributed grid environment
- convenience utilties for executing and collection of results from embarrassingly parallel tasks
- simple integration with JAVAs Runnable and Callable classes
ChromA
- fast peak finder for chromatographic peaks
- import of significant peaks as alignment anchors
- multiple alignment and peak matching based on mass spectral similarities
- clustering of chromatograms based on alignments
ChromA4D
- peak finder for comprehensive GCxGC-MS and other multicolumn chromatography-MS
- peak area integration based on 2D-TIC
- multiple alignment and peak matching based on mass spectral similarities
Analytical Pyrolysis
- peak finder for comprehensive GCxGC-MS and other multicolumn chromatography-MS
- peak area integration based on 2D-TIC
- multiple alignment and peak matching based on mass spectral similarities