Indigo BioAutomation’s founder, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Randall K. Julian, Jr., PhD, will lead a pre-conference short course, R Programming for Mass Spectrometry, at the Clinical & Translational Omics Symposium in Protaras, Cyprus.
R Programming for Mass Spectrometry by Randall K. Julian, Jr., PhD. 1st Edition. Published May 2025. Wiley.
The 2-day course will cover selected topics from his book R Programming for Mass Spectrometry, Effective and Reproducible Data Analysis, recently published by Wiley. The October 30-31 workshop covers foundational and advanced topics in mass spectrometry data analysis through hands-on exercises. Starting with setting up an efficient R development environment, the workshop will give participants experience with packages and algorithms that simplify mass spectrometry data analysis. Emphasis will be on keeping computational work organized and reproducible. The course uses specialized packages from Bioconductor and Tidyverse packages for data manipulation and visualization. Topics include handling measurements at the detection limit, using filters to calculate derivatives from noisy data to find peaks, and understanding how processing decisions affect quantification. The workshop concludes with applying machine learning to mass spectrometry data using Tidymodels.
“There is so much that can be done with mass spectrometry today. With the right analysis tools, we can do even more. R provides an ideal platform for analyzing and sharing results, data, and code. It’s my hope that the book and the workshop will help researchers to conduct more sophisticated experiments and move discoveries into clinical practice earlier.”
About Randall K. Julian, Jr., PhD
Dr. Julian has spent his career in the life sciences combining analytical chemistry and computational science. Randall has worked for decades on
open data standards and, most recently, helped write quality guidelines and
standards across the range from basic research to high-throughput
production operations. At Indigo, Dr. Julian works with mass spectrometry and PCR groups at top reference labs and hospitals. His team processes about 12 million chromatograms a day with Indigo’s ASCENT system. At 13 billion chromatograms and counting, Indigo understands what makes tests work at scale.
