WHAT IS OPENMS?
As part of the deNBI Center for integrative Bioinformatics, OpenMS offers an open-source software C++ library (+ python bindings) for LC/MS data management and analyses. It provides an infrastructure for the rapid development of mass spectrometry related software as well as a rich toolset built on top of it. OpenMS is free software available under the three clause BSD license and runs under Windows, macOS and Linux.
Recent News
OpenMS 2.6.0 released
30.09.2020We are proud to announce release 2.6.0 of OpenMS. Get it now!
Testimonials
OpenMS is a highly versatile platform that can be adapted to address existing challenges in MS-data analysis, particularly in niche applications such as immunopeptidomics.

Department of Immunology, University Tübingen
Recent Tweets
We are proud to announce OpenMS 2.6.0 github.com/OpenMS/OpenMS/…. Bioconda packages: anaconda.org/search?q=OpenMS. KNIME plugins are available via the KNIME update mechanism and our pyOpenMS 2.6.0 packages will be available here (soon): pypi.org/project/pyopen…
How to cite OpenMS
Röst, H.L., Sachsenberg, T., Aiche, S., Bielow, C., Weisser, H., Aicheler, F., Andreotti, S., Ehrlich, H.-C., Gutenbrunner, P., Kenar, E., Liang, X., Nahnsen, S., Nilse, L., Pfeuffer, J., Rosenberger, G., Rurik, M., Schmitt, U., Veit, J., Walzer, M., Wojnar, D., Wolski, W.E., Schilling, O., Choudhary, J.S., Malmström, L., Aebersold, R., Reinert, K., Kohlbacher, O.
OpenMS: A flexible open-source software platform for mass spectrometry data analysis. Nature Methods, vol. 13, 2016. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3959