---
name: "libmstoolkit"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmstoolkit82t64"
version: "82-7.2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/libmstoolkit"
---

# libmstoolkit(3)

The libmstoolkit package ships light-weight C++ libraries for reading, writing, and manipulating mass spectrometry data. The libMSToolKit libraries are easily linked to virtually any C++ algorithm for simple, fast file reading and analysis.

## NAME

libmstoolkit —  The libmstoolkit package  ships light-weight C++ libraries for reading, writing, and  manipulating mass spectrometry data. The libMSToolKit libraries are  easily linked to virtually any C++ algorithm for simple, fast  file reading and analysis.

## SYNOPSIS

**libmstoolkit**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **libmstoolkit** source package.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

The **libmstoolkit** source package is used to create the following packages:

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  **libmstoolkit82** runtime binary package;

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  **libmstoolkit82-dbg;** runtime binary package (debugging symbols);

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  **libmstoolkit-dev** development binary package.

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  **libmstoolkit-tools** tools binary package.

The **libmstoolkit82** runtime  binary package ships the following libraries

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  libmstoolkit.so

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  libmstoolkitlite.so

The **libmstoolkit-dev** development  binary package ships the following files:

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  Include files, shipped in /usr/include/libmstoolkit

The **libmstoolkit-tools**   binary package ships the following file:

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  msSingleScan shipped in /usr/bin;    DESCRIPTION: Reads an MS/MS spectrum from any MSToolkit supported file type and outputs to screen in MS2 format.  USAGE: MSSingleScan \[scan number\] \[file\]

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi \<lopippo@debian.org\> for  the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.