[magicalhippo]

Was not familiar with the details of mass spectography.

Found this[1] page which includes an explanation of how it works, and also shows some analysis using the Spectra R package.

The SpectraQL[2] package adds MassQL support to Spectra, so one can compare a bit.

[1]: https://uclouvain-cbio.github.io/WSBIM2122/sec-ms.html

[2]: https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SpectraQL