BRAIN-package {BRAIN} | R Documentation

## Implementation of BRAIN (Baffling Recursive Algorithm for Isotope distributioN calculations)

### Description

This package implements BRAIN (Baffling Recursive Algorithm for Isotope distributioN calculations) is described in full details by Claesen et al. The algorithm uses an algebraic approach (Viete's formulas, Newton identities [Macd]) which is especially useful for large molecules due to its advantageous scaling properties. This version of the package provides functions for calculating the aggregated isotopic distribution and center-masses masses for each aggregated isotopic variant for chemical components built from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur (e.g. peptides). The natural abundances and molecular masses for stable isotopes of C, H, N, O, S are taken from IUPAC 1997 [Rosm].

### Details

Package: | BRAIN
Type: | Package
Version: | 1.4.0
Date: | 2013-01-18
License: | GPL-2
LazyLoad: | yes

### Author(s)

Piotr Dittwald with contribution of Dirk Valkenborg and Jurgen Claesen

Maintainer: Piotr Dittwald <piotr.dittwald@mimuw.edu.pl>

### References

[Clae] Claesen J., Dittwald P., Burzykowski T. and Valkenborg D. An efficient method to calculate the aggregated isotopic distribution and exact center-masses. JASMS, 2012, doi:10.1007/s13361-011-0326-2

[Macd] Macdonald I.G., Symmetric functions and Hall polynomials / by I. G. Macdonald. Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, Oxford : New York, 1979.

[Rosm] K.J.R. Rosman and P.D.P. Taylor. Isotopic compositions of the elements 1997. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 70(1):217-235, 1998.

### Examples

      nrPeaks = 1000
      aC <-  list(C=23832, H=37816, N=6528, O=7031, S=170)  # Human dynein heavy chain
      res <- useBRAIN(aC = aC, nrPeaks = nrPeaks)
      iso <- res$isoDistr
      masses <- res$masses
      mono <- res$monoisotopicMass
      avgMass <- res$avgMass

[Package BRAIN version 1.26.0 Index]