Reverse library search

From Mass Spectrometry Terms

Jump to: navigation, search
2006 PAC SUBMISSION VERSION
Reverse library search

A procedure of comparing a mass spectrum of an unknown compound with a mass spectral library so that the unknown spectrum is compared in turn with the library spectra, considering only the m/z peaks observed to have significant intensity in the current library spectrum.


Mass spectrometry terms project – included in submission to PAC (April, 2006)

NOT PEER REVIEWED

Wikipedia link: Reverse library search


JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY GLOSSARY
Reverse library search

The process of comparing a subset of the peaks in the mass spectrum of an unknown compound with peaks in a library mass spectrum. Any peaks in the mass spectrum of the unknown compound that are not in the library spectrum are disregarded.

Reference:
  1. F.P. Abramson, Anal. Chem. 47 (1975) 45.

Journal of Chromatography Glossary of Terms (March 2010)
Personal tools