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NAME

Finnigan::Reaction -- a decoder for Reaction, the container for precursor mass and fragmentation energy

SYNOPSIS

  use Finnigan;
  my $r = Finnigan::Reaction->decode(\*INPUT);
  say $r->precursor;
  say $r->enengy;

DESCRIPTION

This object contains a couple of double-precision floating point numbers that define the precursor ion M/z and the energy of the fragmentation reaction.

There are other elements that currently remain unknown: a double (set to 1.0 in all observations) and a couple longs.

METHODS

decode($stream)

The constructor method

precursor

Get the precursor M/z

energy

Get the fragmentation energy

stringify

Make a short text representation of the object (found inside Therom's "filter line")

SEE ALSO

Finnigan::ScanEvent

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AUTHOR

Gene Selkov, <selkovjr@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Gene Selkov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.