To install from source, you will need to install a suitable C++ compiler and corresponding build tools for your platform as well as CMake and zlib. The instructions listed here refer to the installation of PASTAQ's Python bindings. Currently the only external dependencies are included as git submodules.

To get started, clone this repository and initialize git submodules:

git clone https://github.com/PASTAQ-MS/PASTAQ.git
cd PASTAQ
git submodule init
git submodule update

As usual, it is strongly recommended to create a Python environment in which to build Pastaq, and the core development has been with Python 3.9, but 3.10 and 3.11 should also work.

When building Pastaq in Windows, it may be helpful to first open a Visual Studio command prompt using Tools->Visual Studio Command Prompt in the Visual Studio IDE so that you have access to the compiler and linker. Then, in that command window, activate your Pastaq Python environment and proceed with the instructions below.

# Installation
python3 setup.py install --user

# Development
python3 setup.py develop --user

Now it can be imported and used in python as follows:

import pastaq
raw_data = pastaq.read_mzxml(...)

Examples of the usage of the PASTAQ can be found in the examples folder. To run them, install pastaq as previously described, update the input path of the mzXML and mzID files, change any necessary parameters and run it with:

python examples/small_range.py

You can use any mzXML files and identifications in mzIdentML v1.1+. If no identifications are available, remove the ident_path from the input files array or set it to 'none'. You can find the files we used for testing and development via ProteomeXchange, with identifier PXD024584.

Processing of mzML files is in an early stage and may lead to some issues.

For more information about PASTAQ and the configuration of the parameters, please visit the official website.

For an out of source build of the library, create a build directory and run cmake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

If you wish to enable the compilation of the tests you need to set up the PASTAQ_ENABLE_TESTS flag to 1. A limited number of automated test are currently available but we are looking forward to improve this in the future.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DPASTAQ_ENABLE_TESTS=1
make
make test

Additionally, you can use the Ninja building tool for faster compilation times.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DPASTAQ_ENABLE_TESTS=1 -GNinja
ninja
ninja test

The main manuscript has been published in as Open Access Analytical Chemistry with the following details: Alejandro Sánchez Brotons, Jonatan O. Eriksson, Marcel Kwiatkowski, Justina C. Wolters, Ido P. Kema, Andrei Barcaru, Folkert Kuipers, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Rainer Bischoff, Frank Suits, and Péter Horvatovich, Pipelines and Systems for Threshold-Avoiding Quantification of LC–MS/MS Data, Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93, 32, 11215–11224.