What is MicrobeMS?
 
The software package available from MicrobeMS is a program designed specifically for the analysis of MALDI-TOF mass spectra from microbial samples. The MicrobeMS software was developed by Peter Lasch at the Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) in Berlin/Germany and can be used to identify microbial strains and species based on their mass spectral patterns. The program is a Matlab-based comprehensive package that operates under Windows 2000/XP/Vista or Windows 7/8/8.1. Original MALDI-TOF mass spectra in the format defined by Bruker Daltonics can be imported, processed and converted to a Matlab data matrix format specific to the MicrobeMS program.
 
The software permits standard mass spectral manipulations such as smoothing, baseline correction, normalization, peak detection, and other functions. Due to the fact that the software runs also in a complete Windows 64-bit environment the number of spectra in the data sets is limited only by the amount of available memory (RAM).
 
What is new in MicrobeMS 0.78?

• The graphical user interface has been redesigned and now features a clean look that makes it simpler and quicker to use
   
  
• New functionality of the software function Microbial identification based on mass spectral libraries and interspectral distances
   
  
• New option to store mass spectra in a Bruker specific data format
   
  
• Import routine for mass spectra in the mzXML format, allows importing raw mass spectra from Shimadzu systems
   
  
• Updated peak detection routine
   
  
• New function to create data base spectra which can be automatically created from experimental mass spectra (ideally from biological and technical replicate spectra)
   
  
• A new option for averaging mass spectra
   
  
• New spectral pre-processing functions: cut, reduce resolution and undo (clear) pre-processing
   
  
• Many code improvements & bug fixes
  

Links:
 

• MicrobeMS web site
   
  
• Software overview
   
  
• Installation
   
  
• MicrobeMS wiki
   
  
• Download MicrobeMS
   
  
• License, Disclaimer
   
  
• FAQ