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De-novo Identification of Small Molecules from Their GC-EI-MS Spectra

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2023-04-05 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Identification of experimentally acquired mass spectra of unknown compounds presents a~particular challenge because reliable spectral databases do not cover the potential chemical space with sufficient density. Therefore machine learning based \emph{de-novo} methods, which derive molecular structure directly from its mass spectrum gained attention recently. We present a~novel method in this family, addressing a~specific usecase of GC-EI-MS spectra, which is particularly hard due to lack of additional information from the first stage of MS/MS experiments, on which the previously published methods rely. We analyze strengths and drawbacks or our approach and discuss future directions.

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@article{arxiv.2304.01634,
  title  = {De-novo Identification of Small Molecules from Their GC-EI-MS Spectra},
  author = {Adam Hájek and Michal Starý and Filip Jozefov and Helge Hecht and Elliott Price and Aleš Křenek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01634},
  year   = {2023}
}