Retrieve Mass Spectrometry Data from MassIVE

August 25, 2026 · View on GitHub

Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. R-CMD-check-bioc codecov :name status badge years in bioc license

This repository provides a backend for Spectra objects that represents and retrieves mass spectrometry (MS) data directly from data sets deposited at the public MassIVE repository. Mass spectrometry data files of a data set are downloaded and cached locally using the BiocFileCache package to avoid repeated download.

Installation

The package can be installed with

install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("MsBackendMassIVE")

Contributions

Contributions are highly welcome and should follow the contribution guidelines. Also, please check the coding style guidelines in the RforMassSpectrometry vignette.

Funding information

This work was co-funded by MetaRbolomics4Galaxy project (CUP: D53C25001030003) financed by Autonomous Province of Bolzano under the framework of the Joint Projects South Tyrol–Germany 2025 funding program.

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