MetaboKit2

MetaboKit's DDA and DIA desktop application, alongside the original command-line tools and visualizers.

Repository layout

• metabokit-gui/: the current Tauri 2 desktop app, its DDA and DIA processing engines, web UI, icons, tests, and macOS packaging script. This is an independent Cargo workspace imported from Metabokit-DDA, including its current local changes.
• mdda/: the original DDA CLI, R plotting script, and mdda-viz visualizer.
• mdia/: the original DIA CLI and mdia-viz visualizer.

The GUI uses the engines in its own crates/ directory; it does not require either original CLI to be built or the previous repository to be present.

Run the desktop app

Install Rust 1.88 or newer and the native development tools required by Tauri 2 (Xcode Command Line Tools on macOS). The GUI serves its local HTML/CSS/JavaScript directly, so it needs no frontend package installation or dev server.

cd metabokit-gui
cargo run --locked -p metabokit-app

Run the Rust tests from the same directory:

cargo test --locked --workspace

The optional UI checks use Deno and Node.js with Playwright, respectively:

deno test ui/dia.test.js
node scripts/ui-smoke.cjs

The smoke script uses installed Google Chrome by default. Set METABOKIT_BROWSER_CHANNEL to select another Playwright browser channel.

macOS packaging

Install the Tauri CLI once:

cargo install tauri-cli --version '^2' --locked

From metabokit-gui/, build a local unsigned DMG:

./build-macos.sh

Packaging requires full Xcode. See MACOS_DISTRIBUTION.md for signed, notarized, and universal builds, and DIA.md for DIA processing and integration details.

Build output, generated Tauri files, dependencies, local datasets, environment files, and signing credentials are excluded by the root .gitignore. Keep application lockfiles, icons, source files, and license notices in Git.