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Cardinal

Cardinal is a mass spectrometry imaging toolbox for R providing efficient preprocessing, spatial segmentation, and statistical classification of imaging MS datasets. It serves workflows in proteomics, lipidomics, and spatial metabolomics research. Released in Bioconductor 3.23 (v3.14.0).

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Cardinal

Version: 3.14.0 (Bioconductor 3.23)

Description: Cardinal is a comprehensive mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) toolbox providing statistical methods for the preprocessing, segmentation, and classification of MSI datasets. It supports large-scale imaging experiments with applications spanning proteomics, lipidomics, and spatial metabolomics.

  • Efficient preprocessing pipeline for MSI data
  • Spatial segmentation of tissue regions
  • Statistical classification methods
  • Applications in lipidomics, proteomics, and metabolomics

Biology Domain: Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Proteomics, Lipidomics, Spatial Metabolomics

Maintainer: Kylie Ariel Bemis, Northeastern University