Welcome to ModiFinder's documentation!

ModiFinder is a tool for site localization of structural modifications using MS/MS data.

This project is under active development.

The documentation is available at: https://wang-bioinformatics-lab.github.io/ModiFinder_base/

Citing

ModiFinder: Tandem Mass Spectral Alignment Enables Structural Modification Site Localization

Mohammad Reza Zare Shahneh, Michael Strobel, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Christian Geibel, Yasin El Abiead, Neha Garg, Berenike Wagner, Karl Forchhammer, Allegra Aron, Vanessa V Phelan, Daniel Petras, and Mingxun Wang

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2024 35 (11), 2564-2578

DOI: 10.1021/jasms.4c00061

License

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Useful Utility Functions

ModiFinder includes several useful utility functions for mass spectrometry data analysis and visualization, exposed under modifinder.utilities.

Reading MGF Files You can easily read MGF files into a pandas DataFrame using read_mgf.

from modifinder.utilities import read_mgf

# Read MGF file
df = read_mgf("path/to/your/spectrum.mgf")
print(df.head())

Visualization The vis module provides powerful visualization tools.

from modifinder.utilities import vis
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Draw a molecule
img = vis.draw_molecule("C1=CC=C(C=C1)O", output_type="png")
plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()

# Draw a spectrum
# spectrum_data is a list of (mz, intensity) tuples
spectrum_data = df.iloc[0]['spectrum'].T.tolist()
vis.draw_spectrum(spectrum_data)
plt.show()

Developer Guide

Running Tests

To run the automated tests, ensure you have pytest installed. Then run:

pytest

or specifically for utilities:

pytest modifinder/utilities/tests/

Release Process

ModiFinder uses GitHub Actions for automated releases and documentation deployment.

Creating a New Release (PyPI)

1. Create and push a new tag starting with v (e.g., v1.2.3).

   git tag v1.2.3
   git push origin v1.2.3

   The version is automatically derived from the tag using setuptools_scm.
2. This triggers the pypi_publish.yml workflow, which:
   • Builds the package.
   • Publishes it to PyPI (and TestPyPI).
   • Creates a GitHub Release.

Updating Documentation Documentation is automatically rebuilt and deployed to GitHub Pages whenever changes are pushed to the main branch (via documentation.yml).