calculateAverageMass {BRAIN}R Documentation

Function computing theoretical average masses.

Description

Function computing the theoretical average masses for chemical components composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur (e.g. peptides).

Usage

calculateAverageMass(aC)

Arguments

aC

List with fields C, H, N, O, S of integer non-negative values (if any field is ommited, then its value is set to 0).

Details

Mass is calculated in Daltons.

Value

Average mass (numeric)

Author(s)

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

See Also

useBRAIN

Examples

  aC <-  list(C=23832, H=37816, N=6528, O=7031, S=170)  # Human dynein heavy chain
  res <- calculateAverageMass(aC = aC)

[Package BRAIN version 1.34.0 Index]