parseELU: Parser for ELU files
In flagme: Analysis of Metabolomics GC/MS Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Reads ASCII ELU-format files from AMDIS (Automated Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification System)

1	parseELU(f,min.pc=.01,mz=seq(50,550),rt.cut=.008,rtrange=NULL)

`f`	ELU filename to read.
`min.pc`	minimum percent of maximum intensity.
`mz`	vector of mass-to-charge bins of raw data table.
`rt.cut`	the difference in retention time, below which peaks are merged together.
`rtrange`	retention time range to parse peaks from, can speed up parsing if only interested in a small region (must be `numeric` vector of length 2)

parseELU will typically be called by addAMDISPeaks, not called directly.

Peaks that are detected within rt.cut are merged together. This avoids peaks which are essentially overlapping.

Fragments that are less than min.pc of the maximum intensity fragment are discarded.

list with components peaks (table of spectra – rows are mass-to-charge and columns are the different detected peaks) and tab (table of features for each detection), according to what is stored in the ELU file.

Mark Robinson

Mark D Robinson (2008). Methods for the analysis of gas chromatography - mass spectrometry data PhD dissertation University of Melbourne.

addAMDISPeaks

require(gcspikelite)

# paths and files
gcmsPath<-paste(find.package("gcspikelite"),"data",sep="/")
eluFiles<-dir(gcmsPath,"ELU",full=TRUE)

# parse ELU file
eluList<-parseELU(eluFiles[1])