Fig. 1: The design concept of tidyMass.
From: TidyMass an object-oriented reproducible analysis framework for LC–MS data

a The object-oriented and module architecture of tidyMass. One uniform data structure is used in the whole workflow and all the processing information and arguments are stored here. The functions are grouped into multiple packages based on their aim. b Interoperability of tidyMass with other existing tools. The data structures of other tools could be converted to the object of tidyMass and then processed or analyzed using the tidyMass. The object of tidyMass can also be converted to other data structures of other tools, and then processed. Icons used in this figure are from www.iconfont.cn/.