matchms 0.7.0

Python library for fuzzy comparison of mass spectrum data and other Python objects

Matchms is an open-source Python package to import, process, clean, and compare mass spectrometry data (MS/MS). It allows to implement and run an easy-to-follow, easy-to-reproduce workflow from raw mass spectra to pre- and post-processed spectral data. Spectral data can be imported from common formats such mzML, mzXML, msp, metabolomics-USI, MGF, or json (e.g. GNPS-syle json files). Matchms then provides filters for metadata cleaning and checking, as well as for basic peak filtering. Finally, matchms was build to import and apply different similarity measures to compare large amounts of spectra. This includes common Cosine scores, but can also easily be extended by custom measures.

If you use matchms in your research, please cite the following software paper:

F Huber, S. Verhoeven, C. Meijer, H. Spreeuw, E. M. Villanueva Castilla, C. Geng, J.J.J. van der Hooft, S. Rogers, A. Belloum, F. Diblen, J.H. Spaaks, (2020). matchms - processing and similarity evaluation of mass spectrometry data. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(52), 2411, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02411

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Documentation for users

For more extensive documentation see our readthedocs.

Installation

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.7 or 3.8

• Anaconda (recommended)

We recommend installing matchms from Anaconda Cloud with

# install matchms in a new virtual environment to avoid dependency clashes
conda create --name matchms python=3.8
conda activate matchms
conda install --channel nlesc --channel bioconda --channel conda-forge matchms

Alternatively, matchms can also be installed using pip but users will then either have to install rdkit on their own or won’t be able to use the entire functionality. Without rdkit installed several filter functions related to processing and cleaning chemical metadata will not run. To install matchms with pip simply run

pip install matchms

Example

Below is a small example of using matchms to calculate the Cosine score between mass Spectrums in the tests/pesticides.mgf file.

from matchms.importing import load_from_mgf
from matchms.filtering import default_filters
from matchms.filtering import normalize_intensities
from matchms import calculate_scores
from matchms.similarity import CosineGreedy

# Read spectrums from a MGF formatted file, for other formats see https://matchms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/matchms.importing.html
file = load_from_mgf("tests/pesticides.mgf")

# Apply filters to clean and enhance each spectrum
spectrums = []
for spectrum in file:
    # Apply default filter to standardize ion mode, correct charge and more.
    # Default filter is fully explained at https://matchms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/matchms.filtering.html .
    spectrum = default_filters(spectrum)
    # Scale peak intensities to maximum of 1
    spectrum = normalize_intensities(spectrum)
    spectrums.append(spectrum)

# Calculate Cosine similarity scores between all spectrums
# For other similarity score methods see https://matchms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/matchms.similarity.html .
scores = calculate_scores(references=spectrums,
                          queries=spectrums,
                          similarity_function=CosineGreedy())

# Print the calculated scores for each spectrum pair
for score in scores:
    (reference, query, score) = score
    # Ignore scores between same spectrum and
    # pairs which have less than 20 peaks in common
    if reference is not query and score["matches"] >= 20:
        print(f"Reference scan id: {reference.metadata['scans']}")
        print(f"Query scan id: {query.metadata['scans']}")
        print(f"Score: {score["score"]:.4f}")
        print(f"Number of matching peaks: {score["matches"]}")
        print("----------------------------")

Glossary of terms

Term	Description
adduct / addition product	During ionization in a mass spectrometer, the molecules of the injected compound break apart into fragments. When fragments combine into a new compound, this is known as an addition product, or adduct. Wikipedia
GNPS	Knowledge base for sharing of mass spectrometry data (link).
InChI / INCHI	InChI is short for International Chemical Identifier. InChIs are useful in retrieving information associated with a certain molecule from a database.
InChIKey / InChI key / INCHIKEY	An indentifier for molecules. For example, the InChI key for carbon dioxide is InChIKey=CURLTUGMZLYLDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N (yes, it includes the substring InChIKey=).
MGF File / Mascot Generic Format	A plan ASCII file format to store peak list data from a mass spectrometry experiment. Links: matrixscience.com, fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu.
parent mass / parent_mass	Actual mass (in Dalton) of the original compound prior to fragmentation. It can be recalculated from the precursor m/z by taking into account the charge state and proton/electron masses.
precursor m/z / precursor_mz	Mass-to-charge ratio of the compound targeted for fragmentation.
SMILES	A line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. For example, water is encoded as O[H]O, carbon dioxide is encoded as O=C=O, etc. SMILES-encoded species may be converted to InChIKey using a resolver like this one. The Wikipedia entry for SMILES is here.

Documentation for developers

Installation

To install matchms, do:

git clone https://github.com/matchms/matchms.git
cd matchms
conda env create --file conda/environment-dev.yml
conda activate matchms-dev
pip install --editable .

Run the linter with:

prospector

Automatically fix incorrectly sorted imports:

isort --recursive .

Files will be changed in place and need to be committed manually.

Run tests (including coverage) with:

pytest

Conda package

To build anaconda package locally, do:

conda deactivate
conda env create --file conda/environment-build.yml
conda activate matchms-build
BUILD_FOLDER=/tmp/matchms/_build
rm -rfv $BUILD_FOLDER;mkdir -p $BUILD_FOLDER
conda build --numpy 1.18.1 --no-include-recipe -c bioconda -c conda-forge \
--croot $BUILD_FOLDER ./conda

If successful, this will yield the built matchms conda package as matchms-<version>*.tar.bz2 in $BUILD_FOLDER/noarch/. You can test if installation of this conda package works with:

# make a clean environment
conda deactivate
cd $(mktemp -d)
conda env create --name test python=3.7
conda activate test

conda install \
  --channel bioconda \
  --channel conda-forge \
  --channel file://${CONDA_PREFIX}/noarch/ \
  matchms

To publish the package on anaconda cloud, do:

anaconda --token ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN }} upload --user nlesc --force $BUILD_FOLDER/noarch/*.tar.bz2

where secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN is a token to be generated on the Anaconda Cloud website. This secret should be added to GitHub repository.

To remove matchms package from the active environment:

conda remove matchms

To remove matchms-build environment:

conda env remove --name matchms-build

Flowchart

Flowchart of matchms workflow. Reference and query spectrums are filtered using the same set of set filters (here: filter A and filter B). Once filtered, every reference spectrum is compared to every query spectrum using the matchms.Scores object.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the development of matchms, have a look at the contribution guidelines.

License

Copyright (c) 2020, Netherlands eScience Center

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the NLeSC/python-template.