The METASPACE platform hosts an engine for metabolite annotation of imaging mass spectrometry data as well as a spatial metabolite knowledgebase of the metabolites from thousands of public datasets provided by the community.
The METASPACE platform is developed by software engineers, data scientists and mass spectrometrists from the Alexandrov team at UCSD. This work is a part of the European project METASPACE.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| engine | Contains a daemon that runs the metabolite annotation engine, and a REST API for sending jobs to the daemon |
| graphql | A GraphQL API for accessing the annotations database and metabolite annotation engine |
| webapp | A web application for submitting datasets and browsing results |
| python-client | A Python library and set of example Jupyter notebooks for performing data analysis on the annotations database |
| ansible | Ansible playbooks for deploying to AWS |
| docker | Docker Compose configuration for making development and testing environments |
Development documentation for each of these projects is available in the wiki
Please check the ansible documentation for production installations on AWS, and the docker documentation for development installations with Docker.
Please visit the help page of our web application running on AWS:
METASPACE is tested with BrowserStack to ensure cross-browser compatibility. This service is provided for free under BrowserStack's Open Source plan.
METASPACE is hosted on Amazon Web Services with the support of AWS Cloud Credits for Research.
We acknowledge funding from the following sources:
| Funder / project(s) | |
|---|---|
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European Union Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreements 634402 / 773089 / 825184 |
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National Institutes of Health NIDDK Kidney Precision Medicine Project (kpmp.org) |
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National Institutes of Health NHLBI LungMAP Phase 2 (lungmap.net) |
and internal funds from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Unless specified otherwise in file headers or LICENSE files present in subdirectories, all files are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.