Sebastian Gibb

About Me | Research Group

I study human medicine at the University of Leipzig. Since 2010 I am a M.D. student in the Statistics and Computational Biology research group headed by Korbinian Strimmer at the Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics, and Epidemiology (IMISE) of the University of Leipzig.

Research Interests

• MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
• statistical methods in clinical diagnostics

Software

R packages

• MALDIquant: Quantitative analysis of MALDI-TOF MS data. (Website)
• readBrukerFlexData: Read MS data in Bruker *flex format.
• readMzXmlData: Read MS data in mzXML format.

Publications

• MALDIquant: a versatile R package for the analysis of mass spectrometric data.
  S. Gibb and K. Strimmer. 2012.
  (arXiv:1203.5885)

Conference contributions:

• Analysis of proteomic data using MALDIquant.
  S. Gibb and K. Strimmer. 2011.
  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, WCSB 2011 (June 6-8, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland), pp. 49-52.
  (reprint, poster).

Recent presentations

• Analysis of Mass Spectrometric Data using MALDIquant:
  Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig. (pdf)
• MALDIquant at useR2011:
  useR 2011. (pdf)