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BRAIN

BRAIN

BRAIN (Baffling Recursive Algorithm for Isotope distributioN calculations) is an R tool to compute aggregated isotopic distribution and exact center-masses for chemical substances and the probabilities of consecutive aggregated isotopic peaks in mass spectral data. The BRAIN algorithm currently computes for C, H, N, O, and S. The BRAIN algorithm uses the Newton-Girard theorem and Viète's formulae for the polynomial coding of variants of aggregated isotopes.

Topic

Proteomics; Proteomics experiment; Lipids; Metabolomics; Statistics and probability

Details

  • Operation: Plotting; Isotopic distributions calculation; Statistical calculation
  • Software interface: Graphical user interface
  • Language: R
  • Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows
  • License: GNU GPL v2
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 1.34.0
  • Credit: The Polish National Science Center, the EU through the European Social Fund, the BOF09NI006 grant, the IAP Research Network P7/06 of the Belgian State (Belgian SciencePolicy), the bilateral FWO.
  • Contact: piotr.dittwald _at_ mimuw.edu.pl
  • Collection: -

Publications

Dittwald P, Claesen J, Burzykowski T, Valkenborg D, Gambin A "BRAIN: a universal tool for high-throughput calculations of the isotopic distribution for mass spectrometry." Anal. Chem. 2013; 85(4):1991-4 https://doi.org/10.1021/ac303439m
PMID: 23350948


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