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Advanced Chemistry Development | Proprietary | ACD offers commercial solutions for the interpretation of MS and xC/MS data with spectrum/structure matching, identification of known and unknown metabolites, as well as identification of compounds through spectral comparison. |
AMDIS | Freeware | NIST created this software for GC/MS data in various formats. It deconvolutes coeluting mass spectra, displays mass chromatograms, calculates retention indexes, allows for target compound libraries, and will export spectra to the NISMS Mass Spectral Search Program. |
Analyst | Proprietary | Analyst was created by AB Sciex, a division of The Danaher Corporation, for control of LC-MS/MS systems. |
AnalyzerPro | Proprietary | AnalyzerPro is a vendor-independent software application from SpectralWorks for processing mass spectrometry data. It can process both GC-MS and LC-MS data using qualitative and quantitative data processing and is used in metabolomics with MatrixAnalyzer for the comparison of multiple data sets. It was recently extended to include statistical analysis and visualization tools (PCA). AnalyzerPro XD is a 64-bit version that includes support for 2 dimensional data processing such as GCxGC-MS. |
ArtIST by Clover Biosoft | Proprietary | Artificial Intelligence Strain Typing is an online service offering MALDI-TOF MS data analysis and biomarker discovery tools, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. |
ASCENT | Proprietary | ASCENT is an LC and GC-MS data analysis automation tool, provided as SaaS over a cloud platform. It uses machine learning algorithms to analyze MS plots and reduce the amount of manual review required. |
CFM-ID | Open source | This software is for in-silico ESI-MS/MS spectra prediction, MS/MS spectra annotation, and compound identification based on an MS/MS spectrum. It was developed in Wishartlab [46] [47] [48] [49] |
Chromeleon | Proprietary | Chromeleon is Thermo Fisher Scientific software used with mass spectrometry instruments, as well as chromatography instruments. |
Clover MSDAS | Proprietary | Cloud-based platform for data analysis with FTIR and MALDI TOF MS data. Subtyping and AMR detection in FTIR and MALDI spectra. Biomarker analyisis, Quality control, reproducibility studies and training of machine learning models. |
Crosslinx | Open source | Identify cross-linked peptides from mzML files and use Python script or standalone executables for Linux and Windows. It is feasible to use with bigger databases with a two-step approach. [50] |
DataAnalysis | Proprietary | Software by Bruker used with mass spectrometry instruments. |
DeNovoGUI | Open source | The software has a graphical user interface for running parallelized versions of the freely available de novo sequencing software tools Novor and PepNovo+. [51] |
Easotope | Open source | Easotope software archives, organizes, and analyzes mass spectrometer data. It is currently oriented toward clumped CO2 analysis but is also useful for bulk CO2 work and expandable to other isotopic systems. |
El-MAVEN | Open-source | Desktop software by Elucidata processes labeled LC-MS, GC-MS and LC-MS/MS data in open-formats (mzXML, mzML, CDF). The software has a graphical and command line interface with integration to a cloud platform for storage and further analyses like relative flux and quantification. [52] |
ESIprot | | ESIprot can determine charge state and calculate molecular weight for low resolution electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) data of proteins. [53] |
Expressionist | Proprietary | Expressionist is software for processing, analyzing, and reporting mass spectrometry data in application areas such as biotherapeutics characterization, quality monitoring, and related proteomics and metabolomics applications. It was developed by Genedata. |
HIquant | Open source | This first-principles model and algorithm quantifies proteoform stoichiometries from bottom-up data. [54] |
KnowItAll Spectroscopy Software & Mass Spectral Library | Proprietary | Software from Wiley with applications for mass spectrometry including: spectral analysis, database searching (spectrum, structure, peak, property, MS Adaptive Search, etc.), processing, database building (MS or multiple techniques including IR, Raman, NMR, UV, Chromatograms), spectral subtraction, plus tools for reporting and ChemWindow structure drawing, and MASSTransit file conversion software (updated with more formats). |
LabSolutions LCMS | Proprietary | Software by Shimadzu Corporation is used with mass spectrometry and HPLC instruments. |
LipidXplorer | Open source | A high-throughput lipid identification software from shotgun mass spectra written in Python. [55] |
Mass++ | Open source | Analysis software for mass spectrometry can import and export files with open-formats (mzXML, mzML) and load some instrument vendor formats; users can develop and add original functions as Mass++ plug-ins. |
MassBank | Open source | MassBank and RMassBank development website is provided by the MassBank consortium. MassBank data are shared under a Creative Commons license. |
MassBank.eu | Website | European MassBank server. The website is maintained and hosted by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Leipzig, Germany). MassBank.eu is a core of the NFDI4Chem consortium. |
MassBank.jp | Website | Website hosted by the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, in Keio University, Tsuruoka City, Yamagata, Japan with mass spectrometric data for organic compounds. |
MassCenter | Proprietary | Software by JEOL used with mass spectrometry instruments. |
Mass Frontier | Proprietary | Software by HighChem used for interpretation and management of mass spectra of small molecules. |
MassLynx | Proprietary | Software by Waters Corporation for analytical instrument control. |
MassMap | Proprietary | General-purpose software suite for automated evaluation of MS data by MassMap GmbH & Co. KG. It is suitable for LC/MS and GC/MS data of all kinds of molecules, the analysis of intact mass spectra of proteins, the analysis of general HDX experiments and the HDX fragment analysis of peptides, with particular methods for the identification of unexpected/unknown components in very complex mixtures. |
Mass Mountaineer | Proprietary | Qualitative analysis and reporting software includes chemometric functions for working with one or more text-format mass spectra. |
Mass-Up | Open-source | Utility for proteomics designed to support the preprocessing and analysis of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry data that loads data from mzML, mzXML and CSV files. It allows users to apply baseline correction, normalization, smoothing, peak detection and peak matching. In addition, it allows the application of different machine learning and statistical methods to the pre-processed data for biomarker discovery, unsupervised clustering and supervised sample classification. [56] |
massXpert | Open source GPL | Graphical user interface-based (GUI) software for simulating and analyzing mass spectrometric data obtained on known bio-polymer sequences. [57] It is a successor to polyxmass and a program of the msXpertSuite software suite. |
Mestrenova | Proprietary | A vendor-independent software for processing chromatography (LC, GC, SFC) data with any combination of detectors, e.g. LC-MS-UV-VIS, GC-MS, SFC-MS-UV in one environment. This multiplatform and web-based software was created by Mestrelab Research, S.L. |
matchms | Open source | Python library imports, cleans, processes and quantitatively compares MS/MS spectra and was developed at the Netherlands eScience Center. [58] |
METASPACE | Free and open-source | Cloud platform for metabolite and lipid identification and a community-populated knowledge base of spatial metabolomes, with thousands of public datasets shared by the users: metaspace2020.eu. It also provides capacities for online data visualization, sharing, and publishing. |
METLIN Database and Technology Platform | Proprietary | Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) database of over 930,000 (as of December 2023) [59] metabolites and other molecular entities, generated from high resolution quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry. [60] It also includes, ion mobility, [61] neutral loss, [62] and LC/MS data. [63] [64] |
mineXpert | Open source GPL | This graphical user interface-based (GUI) software for mass spectral data visualization/mining supports ion mobility mass spectrometry [65] [66] and is a program of the msXpertSuite software suite. |
mMass | Open source | Multi-platform package of tools for mass spectrometric data analysis and interpretation written in Python (no longer developed). |
MolAna | | MolAna was developed by Phenomenome Discoveries Inc, (PDI) for use in IONICS Mass Spectrometry Group's 3Q Molecular Analyzer, Triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. |
msAxel | Proprietary | Software used by JEOL time-of-flight mass spectrometers |
msFineAnalysis | Proprietary | Qualitative analysis software for JEOL GC-MS systems. The msFineAnalysis AI version for JEOL's GC-time-of-flight mass spectrometers contains a searchable in-silico database of mass spectra calculated for the 100 million structures in the PubChem database. |
MSGraph | Open source | This tool does qualitative analysis of mass spectrometric (MS) data and is hosted by Sourceforge. |
MSight | Freeware | Software for mass spectrometry imaging developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. [67] |
MSiReader | Freeware | Vendor-neutral interface built on the Matlab platform designed to view and perform data analysis of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data. [68] Matlab is not required to use MSiReader. |
MS Interpreter | Freeware | Software by NIST for compression of structure with mass spectra. The program seeks to find mechanisms and their rates for all fragmentation types (EI, Tandem positive and negative mode) and correlates mass spectral peaks to a probable origin structure. It contains an isotope calculator and other features and on-line help. This program is a companion to the NIST Spectra Search Program, v.3.0. It is usable as a standalone with the import of a structure and spectrum. |
mspire | Open-source | Mspire is an MS informatics developer's toolbox, written in ruby, that includes an mzML reader/writer, in-silico digestion and isotopic pattern calculation, etc. Submodules such as mspire-lipidomics, mspire-sequest, and mspire-simulator extend the functionality. [69] |
MSqRob | Open-source | This is an "R" package with graphical user interface for differential abundance analysis of label-free quantitative proteomics data. [70] [71] [72] |
ms2mz | Freeware | Utility converts between mass spectrometer file formats, e.g. to convert proprietary binary files to MGF peak list files, to prepare for upload to Proteome Cluster. |
Multimaging | Proprietary | Software for mass spectrometry imaging designed to normalize, validate and interpret MS images. |
multiMS-toolbox | Open source | MS-alone and multiMS-toolbox is a tool chain for mass spectrometry data peak extraction and statistical analysis. |
mzCloud | Website | Web-based mass spectral database that comprises a collection of high and low resolution tandem mass spectrometry data acquired under a number of experimental conditions. |
MZmine | Open source | An open-source software for mass spectrometry data processing, with the main focus on LC-MS data. |
OmicsHub Proteomics | | Laboratory information management software for mass spectrometry information management and data analysis. |
OpenChrom | Open source | Chromatography and mass spectrometry software that can be extended using plug-ins and can run on several operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) and processor architectures (x86, x86_64, ppc). It has converters for the native access of various data files, e.g. converters for mzXML, netCDF, Agilent, Finnigan and Varian file formats. |
ORIGAMI | Open source | The ORIGAMI software suite is for analysis of mass spectrometry and ion mobility mass spectrometry datasets. It was originally developed to improve the analysis workflows of activated IM-MS/collision-induced unfolding (CIU) datasets and allow seamless visualization of results. Recently, ORIGAMI was modified to be more accepting of non-MS centric and enables visualization of results from other sources as well as the exporting of results in an interactive format, where the user can share any dataset and visualize results in a web browser. [73] |
PatternLab | Freeware | Software for post-analysis of SEQUEST, ProLuCID or Comet database search results filtered by DTASelect or Census. [74] |
pyOpenMS | Open source | pyOpenMS is an open-source Python library for mass spectrometry, specifically for the analysis of proteomics and metabolomics data in Python. |
Peaksel | Proprietary | This web-based (available both in cloud as SaaS and as on-prem installation) software for LC/MS data processing supports batch processing and high-throughput experiments. It is "vendor agnostic." |
PeakStrainer | Open source | Intensity-Independent Noise Filtering in FT MS and FT MS/MS spectra for Shotgun Lipidomics (Python) [75] |
Peacock | Open source | Mac OS X application developed by Johan Kool that can be used to interpret gas-chromatography/mass-spectrometry (GC/MS) data files. |
PeakInvestigator | Proprietary | A program designed to detect and deconvolve overlapping MS data, which can increase the effective resolution of spectra by 3-4 times. |
PetroOrg | Proprietary | Software was developed specifically for analyzing petroleum, but it is also used to analyze "other complex mixtures, including anthropogenic environmental contaminants and natural organic matter." [76] |
Pinnacle | Proprietary | A proteomics analysis software with modules for translational proteomics, glycoproteomics, and biopharma analysis. It includes comprehensive quantitation of thousands of proteins across hundreds of samples using DDA, DIA, PRM or SRM with fully integrated statistics and biological interpretation. There is a complete N-linked glycoprotein identification routine and an in-depth analysis in protein characterization, including peptide mapping, error tolerant search and disulfide analysis. |
PIQMIe | Web | Proteomics Identifications/quantitations data management and integration service is a web-based tool that aids scalable data management, analysis and visualization of semi-quantitative (SILAC) proteomics experiments. [77] |
POTAMOS | Open source | This web application calculates mass spectrometry data independently of instrumentation and is focused on a well known protein family of histones whose PTMs are believed to play a crucial role in gene regulation. It calculates the kind, number and combinations of the possible PTMs corresponding to a given peptide sequence and mass. |
ProMass | Proprietary | ProMass is an automated biomolecule deconvolution and reporting software package used to process ESI/LC/MS data or single ESI mass spectra. It uses the deconvolution algorithm, ZNova, to produce artifact-free deconvoluted mass spectra. There is also a "lite" browser-based format called ProMass for the Web that does not require any installation or software download. |
ProteoIQ | Proprietary | Software for the post-analysis of Mascot, SEQUEST, or X!Tandem database search results. [78] [79] [80] |
PROTRAWLER | | LC/MS data reduction application that reads raw mass spectrometry vendor data (from several well-known instrument companies) and creates triplet lists {mass, retention time, integrated signal intensity} summarizing the LC/MS chromatogram. |
Proteomatic | Freeware | Data processing pipeline created for the purpose of evaluating mass spectrometric proteomics experiments. [81] |
ProteomicsTools | Open source | Software for the post-analysis of MASCOT, SEQUEST, Comet, XTandem, PFind, PeptidePhophet, MyriMatch, MSGF, OMSSA, MSAmanda or Percolator database search results. [82] |
ProteoWizard | Open source | Link library and tools that are a set of modular and extensible open-source, cross-platform tools and software libraries that facilitate proteomics data analysis. |
ProteoWorker | Proprietary | Cloud-based software for proteomics data analysis including COMET, Peptide Prophet, ProteinProphet and extensive data sorting, filtering and annotation tools. |
Provision | Open source | Cloud-based software written in R for analysing proteomics data generated by MaxQuant. This software analyzes differential quantification data and is assisted by tools and visualization options. It is possible to process label-free and tandem mass-tagged data. [83] |
pymzML | Open source | Python module to interface mzML data in Python, based on cElementTree with additional tools for MS-informatics. [84] |
Pyteomics | Open source | A Python framework for proteomics data analysis. [85] |
Quantem | | Software for ESI-MS quantification without analytical standards. Developed in Kruvelab, distributed by Quantem Analytics. |
Quantinetix | Proprietary | Software for mass spectrometry imaging designed to quantify and normalize MS images in various study types. It is compatible with a variety of MSI instruments, including Bruker, Sciex, Thermo and with the iMZML data format. |
Rational Numbers Excel Add-In | Proprietary | De novo identification tool for small molecules that works with Microsoft Excel (2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019). This software treats small molecules as mathematical partitions of the molecular mass and generates subfragment formulas with atoms that are sets of partitions comprising the molecular formula. |
Rational Numbers SPS | Proprietary | This seeks to identify small molecules by comparing accurate-mass fragmentation data to a database of 250,000 molecules represented as mathematical partitions of the exact molecular masses. SPS (Similar Partition Searching) is designed to rapidly analyze and summarize multiple chromatographic MS/MS datasets acquired by DDA (data dependent acquisition). |
REGATTA | | An LC/MS list comparison application that works with ProTrawler (but accepts input in Excel/CSV form) to provide an environment for LC/MS results list filtering and normalization {mass, retention time, integrated intensity}. |
RemoteAnalyzer | Proprietary | Software by SpectralWorks for vendor-independent 'Open Access' client/server-based solutions to provide a "walk-up and use" LC-MS and GC-MS data system. Instrument control and data processing support for multiple vendors' hardware. NMR instrumentation and data processing are also supported. |
Scaffold | Proprietary | Suite of proteomics tools for analyzing spectra, peptides and proteins across multiple samples. |
SCIEX OS | Proprietary | Next generation software by SCIEX controlling the X-series mass spectrometers, with support for data analysis acquired using the Analyst software suite. |
SCiLS Lab | Proprietary | Multi-vendor software for statistical analysis of mass spectrometry imaging data. |
SFINX | Open source and web | The straightforward filtering index (SFINX) allows separation of true positive from false positive protein interactions in affinity purification - mass spectrometry and related datasets. [86] [87] It is accessible via its web-interface [86] and as an R package. [88] |
SIM-XL | Freeware | Spectrum Identification Machine for Cross-linked Peptides (SIM-XL) is an XL search engine that is part of the PatternLab for proteomics environment, to analyze tandem mass spectrometry data derived from cross-linked peptides. [89] |
SimGlycan | Proprietary | Predicts the structure of glycans and glycopeptides using mass spectrometry MS/MS data. |
SIMION | Proprietary | SIMION is an ion optics simulation program. |
SIRIUS | Open source and web service | An umbrella application for the annotation of small molecules from LC-MS/MS data. |
Spectrolyzer | Proprietary | Spectrolyzer is a Microsoft Windows-based software package developed by Binary Detect (previously named Medicwave) that provides bioinformatics data analysis tools for different mass spectrometers. It focuses on finding protein biomarkers and detecting protein deviations. |
Spectromania | Proprietary | Software for analysis and visualization of mass spectrometric data. [90] |
StavroX | Freeware | Software to identify cross-linked peptides from mass spectrometric data written in Java that can be used for a wide variety of cross linkers and proteases used in the cross linking MS experiment; it compares theoretical peptide-peptide cross link combinations for the analyzed proteins to MS/MS data. [91] |
Swiss Mass Abacus | Open source | Swiss Mass Abacus is a calculator of peptide and glycopeptide masses. It is purposefully kept as simple as a basic calculator executing arithmetic operations. |
TOF-DS | Proprietary | Software by Markes International used with BenchTOF time-of-flight mass spectrometers. |
TopFD | Open source | TopFD (Top-down mass spectral Feature Detection) is a software tool for top-down spectral deconvolution and a successor to MS-Deconv. It groups top-down spectral peaks into isotopomer envelopes and converts them to monoisotopic neutral masses. In addition, it extracts proteoform features from LC-MS or CE-MS data. |
Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) | Open source | The Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) is a collection of integrated tools for MS/MS proteomics. It includes: PeptideProphet for the Statistical validation of PSMs using search engine results; iProphet for distinct peptide sequence validation, using PeptideProphet results (can combine results of multiple search engines); and ProteinProphet for Protein identification and validation, using PeptideProphet or iProphet results. TPP also does: Protein Quantification with XPRESS (calculates relative peptide/protein abundances from isotopically labeled MS/MS samples); ASAPRatio (Automated Statistical Analysis on Protein Ratio, an alternative to XPRESS); and Libra (quantification of isobarically-labeled samples (e.g. iTraq, TMT, etc.) for any number of channels). The TPP currently supports Sequest, Mascot, ProbID, X!Tandem, Comet, SpectraST, MSGF+, Inspect, MyriMatch, and Phenyx. It was developed at the Seattle Proteomic Centre (SPC). [92] [93] |
TurboMass | Proprietary | TurboMass is GC/MS software created by PerkinElmer. |
Universal Mass Calculator | Freeware | UMC is programmed as a mass spectrometry tool to assist interpreting measurement results, mainly derived from molecular or quasi-molecular ions. It can be used for the calculation of: - Mass deviation (mmu or ppm) of measured mass from given empirical formula
- Mass differences of two empirical formulas
- Elemental compositions (also considering measured intensity pattern, "most abundant" algorithm [94] included)
- Isotope pattern simulation from empirical formulas
- Analysis of the degree of isotope labelling with D, 13C, 15N or 18O.
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VIPER | | VIPER analyzes accurate mass and chromatography retention times of LC-MS features (accurate mass and time tag approach). [95] |
Xcalibur | Proprietary | Software by Thermo Fisher Scientific used with mass spectrometry instruments. |
XCMS Online (Cloud-Based) | Proprietary | Freely available and a widely used metabolomic and lipidomic data-processing platform. |