---
name: "libmsnumpress"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmsnumpress-dev"
version: "1.0.0-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/libmsnumpress"
---

# libmsnumpress(3)

Implementations of two compression schemes for numeric data from mass spectrometers.

## NAME

**libmsnumpress** 		 — 			Implementations of two compression schemes for numeric data from mass spectrometers.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **libmsnumpress** software package.

The library provides implementations of 3 different algorithms, 1 designed to  compress first order smooth data like retention time or M/Z arrays, and 2 for  compressing non smooth data with lower requirements on precision like ion count  arrays.

## Bibliographic reference to be cited

Teleman J, Dowsey AW, Gonzalez-Galarza FF, Perkins S, Pratt B, Röst HL,  Malmström L, Malmström J, Jones AR, Deutsch EW, Levander F.  Numerical  compression schemes for proteomics mass spectrometry data. *Mol*  *Cell Proteomics* 2014 Jun;13(6):1537-42. doi:  H.1074/mcp.O114.037879.

## Useful reading

The library is documented fully in the  *developer*  *documentation*, that is packaged in the  **libmsnumpress-dev-doc** package. That documentation is available  in the form of HTML-formatted files  (**/usr/share/doc/libmsnumpress-dev-doc.pdf**).

## AUTHOR

Filippo Rusconi \<lopippo@debian.org\>

This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi  \<lopippo@debian.org\> (initial writing 05 december  ). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or  modify this document under the terms of the GNU General  Public License, Version 3, published by the Free Software  Foundation.

On a Debian system the complete text of the GNU General  Public License version 3 can be found in the file  **/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3**.