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.

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PROTEOMICS

Almost 200 ready-made and customisable tools for analysing your proteomics data. Combined in flexible workflows they provide solutions to a broad range of problems arising in state-of-the art proteomics labs.

METABOLOMICS

OpenMS provides a wide range of customisable tools, specifically designed for all steps in the analysis of your non-targeted metabolomics data.

WORKFLOWS

Every tool that is developed within OpenMS is available on flexible, scalable and easy-to-use workflow engines (such as KNIME, Galaxy and WS-PGRADE) facilitating reproducible science

QUICK FACTS

Programming Language:

C++11

License:

BSD/3­clause

Supported Platforms:

Windows: Visual C++ 14 to 15
Linux: GNU/g++ (4.8+), LLVM/Clang (3.3+)
macOS: Apple LLVM (5.1+), GNU/g++ (4.8+), LLVM/Clang (3.3+)

Recent News

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Award to OpenMS

27.05.2020

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded a grant to OpenMS for open source software projects essential to science. General information here and detailed information here.

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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., 2016. OpenMS: A flexible open-source software platform for mass spectrometry data analysis. Nat. Methods 13. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3959