Developer C++ Quickstart Guide

First, we give a small introduction to this tutorial and OpenMS:

• Introduction
• General Information
• The structure of the OpenMS Framework
• Developing with OpenMS
• Mass spectrometry terms

Then you should read about the basic classes and concepts of OpenMS:

• OpenMS Library
• Overview on Central Algorithms and Methods
• Kernel Classes
• Peaks
• Spectra
• Chromatograms
• Precursor
• MRMTransitionGroup
• Maps
• MSExperiment
• FeatureMap
• File Formats
• Logging
• Identifications
• Chemistry
• Element, ElementDB, EmpiricalFormula
• AASequence - Representing a Peptide (amino acid sequence)
• Residue and ResidueDB - Dealing with residues / amino acids
• ResidueModification, ModificationsDB
• TheoreticalSpectrumGenerator
• DigestionEnzymeProtein, ProteaseDB and ProteaseDigestion

Here you can read about how to create a TOPP-Tool in OpenMS:

• TOPP-Tool
• Create and register a minimal tool in OpenMS
• Define tool parameters
• Read tool parameters
• Read Input Files
• Add the tool functionality
• Write Output Files
• Adding TOPP tests
• Finish documentation
• Polish your code
• Open a pull request

Here you find additional Information:

• Appendix
• D-dimensional data points
• OpenMS as external project