A Parser for mzXML, mzData and mzML les

Most importantly, access to the data should be fast and memory efficient. This is made possible by allowing random file access, i.e. retrieving specific data of interest without having to sequentially browser the full content. The actual work of reading and parsing the data files is handled by the included C/C++ libraries or “backends”. The RAMP parser, written at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is a fast and lightweight parser in pure C. Later, it gained support for the mzData format.