  Summary: MALDIquant is an R package providing a complete and modular analysis
pipeline for quantitative analysis of mass spectrometry data. MALDIquant is
specifically designed with application in clinical diagnostics in mind and
implements sophisticated routines for importing raw data, preprocessing,
non-linear peak alignment, and calibration. It also handles technical
replicates as well as spectra with unequal resolution.
  Availability: MALDIquant and its associated R packages readBrukerFlexData and
readMzXmlData are freely available from the R archive CRAN
(http://cran.r-project.org). The software is distributed under the GNU General
Public License (version 3 or later) and is accompanied by example files and
data. Additional documentation is available from
http://strimmerlab.org/software/maldiquant/.
