OpenMS standalone installer

Dear OpenMS-Users,

we are proud to announce the release of OpenMS 2.7.0. Grab it here

In the following you find all important changes to the previous version:

General:

• OpenMS now expects a compiler that supports C17
• Config storage path on linux changed to ~/.config/
• Some documentation improvements to pyOpenMS https://pyopenms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Adapters/Third-party support:

• Added support for SIRIUS 4.9.0
• Added basic Triqler export
• Improved NOVOR support
• Improved MSFragger support
• Removed Inspect support
• Easier 15N-labeling support for XTandemAdapter by shipping the required AA mass modification file (#5026)

What's new:

• Add some support for integrating spectral information when conducting DDA metabolomics experiments
• SimpleSearchEngine and algorithm: Additional spectrum features for percolator added
• FeatureFinderMetaboIdent: Targeted feature extraction is now also available from pyOpenMS
• AssayGeneratorMetabo: Added SIRIUS 4.9.0 support, allowing internal decoy generation and added internal feature linking support
• QCCalculator: export in mzQC file format is now available

New Tools:

• OpenMSDatabasesInfo -- Prints the content of OpenMS' enzyme and modification databases to TSV (UTIL)
• TriqlerConverter -- Converter to input for Triqler (UTIL)

Removed Tools:

• FeatureFinderSuperHirn -- Finds mass spectrometric features in mass spectra (TOPP)
• InspectAdapter -- Annotates MS/MS spectra using Inspect (TOPP)

Further fixes:

• Support for GLPK 5.x (#5127)
• IPF (identification of peptidoforms): add a check for terminal residue modification when generating theoretical peptidoforms
• Reduced build times on Windows
• Reduced AddressSanitizer warnings

File formats:

• Exporter for MSP files
• Improved support for reading NIST MSP files

Dependencies:

• Promoted SeqAn v1 to C17. Moved Seqan from contrib to main source tree (as it is not officially maintained anymore).

Library:

• Removed Elements.xml and Residues.xml. Hard-coded elements and residues for better performance/startup times.
• Moved algorithm of FeatureFinderMetaboIdent into library
• Added support for isotopic labelling experiments (MDV)
• Removed SuperHirn library

GUI tools:

• TOPPView: Various bug fixes
• TOPPView: Dynamic detection of tools in TOPPView upon startup
• TOPPView: Improved DIA data browsing
• TOPPAS: add a recent files submenu
• ParamEditor: with more convenient StringList editing
• SwathWizard: Allow opening in TOPPView

Best regards, The OpenMS-Developers