Brendan MacLean

2024-03-28

Brendan MacLean   Brendan MacLean worked at Microsoft for 8 years in the 1990s where he was a lead developer and development manager for the Visual C++/Developer Studio Project.  Since leaving Microsoft, Brendan has been the Vice President of Engineering for Westside Corporation, Director of Engineering for BEA Systems, Inc., Sr. Software Engineer at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a founding partner of LabKey Software.  In this last position he was one of the key programmers responsible for the Computational Proteomics Analysis System (CPAS), made significant contributions to the development of X!Tandem and the Trans Proteomic Pipeline, and created the LabKey Enterprise Pipeline.  For the last 5 and a half years he has worked as a Sr. Software Engineer within the MacCoss lab and lead all aspects of design, development and support in creating the Skyline Targeted Proteomics Environment and its growing worldwide user community.

Status of the Skyline open-source software project 6 years after its inception

The Skyline project started just after ASMS 2008 as a 2-year effort to bring better SRM/MRM software tools to the NCI-CPTAC Verification Working Group that could support the variety of mass spectrometers in use in participating laboratories. Nearly 6 years later, the Skyline project is a thriving proteomics community open-source collaboration supporting 6 mass spec instrument vendors, integrated with a wide variety of external software, with thousands of users worldwide and many thousands of instances started each week. In this presentation, the Skyline lead software engineer will present recent developments and a roadmap for the project's future. Topics covered will include:
  • Expanding support for new instrument vendors and new instruments
  • The growing relationship between Skyline and the Panorama Targeted Proteomics Knowledge Base
  • External tools and the creation of the Skyline Tool Store
  • Integration between Skyline and the Chorus cloud-based mass spec data store
  • Worldwide support and translating Skyline to Japanese and Chinese
  • Live Reports, multi-peptide graphs, protein details, global standards and other exciting advances in Skyline user interface 

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