#pViz.js: a JavaScript toolkit to bring LC-MS/MS data to your browser

##Visit the how-to web site to get documentation, code snippets and running examples

##What is fishTones.js? fishTones.js is a JavaScript library to visualize Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry data in modern web browsers. From theoretical computations on complex peptides, to spectral alignment and rich XIC exploration, fishTones.js offers both computational features and a large variety of visualization widgets. More than a single end user software, fishTones.js is a toolkit to build such applications.

###Third parties dependencies fishTones.js library uses D3 for SVG generation, backbone.js framework for the model/view framework, Twitter Bootstrap for the css and JavaScript, underscore.js library for convenient utilities and require.js for dependency management.

But do not worry, including the packaged distribution bundles all of them for you.

##And more

install dependencies

npm install
bower install

deploy the how-to web site

ant build-examples
rsync --recursive howto host:/your/path/

###A few comments on the code The JavaScript library relies on some "modern" language components. It is not aimed at running on IE 7. That said, you can either use the bundled library (with all dependencies) or created you own application using require.js and checked out source code.

####Unit testing Via jasmine, either in the browser (test/unit/index.html) or command line with phantom.js

####Continuous integration test, distribution etc. can be launched in a CI environment via grunt tasks ant unit-test, build...

###Authors This library was initiated by Alexandre Masselot (masselot.alexandre@gene.com) within Genentech Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Department.

###License The library is distributed under a BSD license. Full description can be found in LICENSE.txt