Bottom-up MS/MS interrogation-based molecular formula annotation for mass spectrometry data.
Project description
msbuddy
msbuddy
is developed for molecular formula annotation in mass spectrometry-based small molecule analysis.
msbuddy
is able to provide formula annotations for queries:
- with or without MS1 isotopic pattern
- with or without MS/MS spectra
- in either positive or negative ionization mode
The minimum requirement for a msbuddy query is a single m/z value and its ionization polarity.
Official documentation is available at https://msbuddy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
msbuddy ver 0.2.0 is now released, with refined models and much improved performance. See change log for details.
Citation
S. Xing et al. BUDDY: molecular formula discovery via bottom-up MS/MS interrogation. Nature Methods 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-01850-x
Installation
msbuddy
is available on PyPI, you can install the latest version via pip
:
pip install msbuddy
To install a specific version, see PyPI release history.
Python usage (docs)
As a quick start, we here load a mgf file and annotate the molecular formula for each query.
All the configurations are specified in the MsbuddyConfig
class.
Parallel computing is supported.
from msbuddy import Msbuddy, MsbuddyConfig
# instantiate a MsbuddyConfig object
msb_config = MsbuddyConfig(# highly recommended to specify
ms_instr='orbitrap', # supported: "qtof", "orbitrap" and "fticr"
# whether to consider halogen atoms FClBrI
halogen=False)
# instantiate a Msbuddy object
msb_engine = Msbuddy(msb_config)
# load data, here we use a mgf file as an example
msb_engine.load_mgf('input_file.mgf')
# annotate molecular formula
msb_engine.annotate_formula()
# retrieve the annotation result summary
result = msb_engine.get_summary()
MS/MS spectra can be loaded via their USIs if they are publicly available:
# you can load multiple USIs at once
msb_engine.load_usi(['mzspec:GNPS:GNPS-LIBRARY:accession:CCMSLIB00003740036',
'mzspec:GNPS:GNPS-LIBRARY:accession:CCMSLIB00003740037'])
msbuddy also provides python APIs for generating molecular formulas from a neutral mass or a charged m/z value. See more in the documentation.
Command-line tool (docs)
msbuddy can also be used as a command-line tool.
Result summary will be generated in a tsv file.
More detailed annotation results can be written with the -details
option (or -d
for short).
Here is an example command for a mgf file from Orbitrap:
msbuddy -mgf <mgf_file> -output <output_folder> -ms orbitrap -details
for a single USI string (from FT-ICR, for example):
msbuddy -usi <usi_string> -output <output_folder> -ms fticr
or a csv file (template files) containing multiple USI strings (QTOF in this example):
msbuddy -csv <csv_file> -output <output_folder> -ms qtof -details
For mgf file or csv file, you can omit the -output
option, and results will be written in the same folder as the input file.
Here is an example of processing a mgf file from Orbitrap (-ms orbitrap
) in parallel (-p
) using 12 cores (-n_cpu 12
). Detailed results are written (-d
).
Halogen atoms (FClBrI) are also considered (-hal
).
msbuddy -mgf <mgf_file> -ms orbitrap -p -n_cpu 12 -d -hal
Run the following command to see the full list of options:
msbuddy --help
Links
License
This work is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Contact
You are welcome to directly contact the msbuddy developer & maintainer Shipei Xing via s1xing@health.ucsd.edu or philipxsp@hotmail.com.
To contribute to msbuddy
, please feel free to file an issue, or submit a pull request with improvements.
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