ProteoWizard: open source software for rapid proteomics tools development

TLDR

ProteoWizard is a modular, extensible, open‑source toolkit that provides cross‑platform tools and libraries for proteomics. The project seeks to establish ProteoWizard as a standard platform for proteomics development and to demonstrate how easily applications can be built on its library. Its C++ library offers pluggable mzML readers and writers, unified data‑file access, and standard proteomics and LCMS computations, enabling rapid tool creation across platforms. ProteoWizard is released under the Apache v2 license, freely downloadable for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and includes code examples, documentation, and encourages community contribution. Contact [e-mail] or [e-mail];.

Abstract

Abstract Summary: The ProteoWizard software project provides a modular and extensible set of open-source, cross-platform tools and libraries. The tools perform proteomics data analyses; the libraries enable rapid tool creation by providing a robust, pluggable development framework that simplifies and unifies data file access, and performs standard proteomics and LCMS dataset computations. The library contains readers and writers of the mzML data format, which has been written using modern C++ techniques and design principles and supports a variety of platforms with native compilers. The software has been specifically released under the Apache v2 license to ensure it can be used in both academic and commercial projects. In addition to the library, we also introduce a rapidly growing set of companion tools whose implementation helps to illustrate the simplicity of developing applications on top of the ProteoWizard library. Availability: Cross-platform software that compiles using native compilers (i.e. GCC on Linux, MSVC on Windows and XCode on OSX) is available for download free of charge, at http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net. This website also provides code examples, and documentation. It is our hope the ProteoWizard project will become a standard platform for proteomics development; consequently, code use, contribution and further development are strongly encouraged. Contact: [e-mail]; [e-mail] Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.