This format is now deprecated, and replaced by mzML. MzData was the first attempt by the Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) from the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) to create a standardized format for Mass Spectrometry data. AnIML ĪnIML is a joined effort of IUPAC and ASTM International to create an XML based standard that covers a wide variety of analytical techniques including mass spectrometry. ANDI was initially developed for chromatography-MS data and therefore was not used in the proteomics gold rush where new formats based on XML were developed.
ANDI is based on netCDF which is a software tool library for writing and reading data files. ANDI is specified in the ASTM E1947 Standard. Many mass spectrometry software packages can read or write ANDI files. The Analytical Data Interchange Format for Mass Spectrometry is a format for exchanging data. Together with the American Society for Mass Spectrometry a JCAMP-DX format for mass spectrometry was developed with aim to preserve legacy data. JCAMP-DX is an ASCII based format and therefore not very compact even though it includes standards for file compression. JCAMP-DX was initially developed for infrared spectrometry. This format was one of the earliest attempts to supply a standardized file format for data exchange in mass spectrometry. To address this limitation, several open, XML-based data formats have recently been developed by the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline at the Institute for Systems Biology to facilitate data manipulation and innovation in the public sector. Over the years, different manufacturers of mass spectrometers have developed various proprietary data formats for handling such data which makes it difficult for academic scientists to directly manipulate their data. The large volume of data produced in a typical mass spectrometry experiment requires that computers be used for data storage and processing. It is often coupled to chromatographic techniques such as gas- or liquid chromatography and has found widespread adoption in the fields of analytical chemistry and biochemistry where it can be used to identify and characterize small molecules and proteins ( proteomics). Mass spectrometry is a scientific technique for measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of ions.