massXpert — Model linear polymers, simulate chemical reactions and predict mass
Contents
Bibliographic Reference To Be Cited
F. Rusconi (2009) massXpert 2: a cross-platform software environment for polymer chemistry modelling and
simulation/analysis of mass spectrometric data. Bioinformatics, 25:2741-2742.
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp504.
Description
This manual page documents briefly the massxpert software shipped within the msXpertSuite software suite.
This program allows one to model linear polymer chemistries using a dedicated grammar. Once the polymer
chemistry of interest is defined, the user is allowed to use it to define polymer sequence files. These
files serve as the starting point for the simulation of a large set of chemical reactions onto that
polymer sequence. This software is comprised of four main submodules:
• XpertDef: module to define brand new polymer chemistries;
• XpertCalc: module to perform any mass calculation taking advantage of defined polymer chemistries;
• XpertEdit: module to edit polymer sequences of any specific polymer chemistry and to graphically
perform a wide array of chemical reactions along with the corresponding mass spectrum simulations;
• XpertMiner: module to compare with maximum flexibility any number of mass-to-ratio (m/z) lists.
Name
massXpert — Model linear polymers, simulate chemical reactions and predict mass
spectrometric data
Options
?|-h|--help
Show this help message.
-c|--config
Display program configuration at build time and the Qt version used to build it.
-v|--version
Print the version of the software program along the with version of the Qt libraries used to
build it.
-l|--license
Print the license of this software.
filename...
One or more names of files to be opened in the sequence editor.
See Also
minepert(1)
Synopsis
massxpert [options][filename...]
Useful Reading
The program is documented fully in the massXpertUserManual, that is packaged in msxpertsuite-doc. That
manual is available in the form of a PDF-formatted file (/usr/share/doc/msxpertsuite/massxpert-doc.pdf).
