MSight: An image analysis software for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

images obtained from high-throughput mass spectrometry (MS) contain information that remains hidden when looking at a single spectrum at a time. Image processing of liquid chromatography-MS datasets can be extremely useful for quality control, experimental monitoring and knowledge extraction. The importance of imaging in differential analysis of proteomic experiments has already been established through two-dimensional gels and can now be foreseen with MS images. We present M Sight, a new software designed to construct and manipulate MS images, as well as to facilitate their analysis and comparison.