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METLIN MS2 molecular standards database: a broad chemical and biological resource

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Fig. 1: The METLIN MS2 database.

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The data in the METLIN database are available at http://metlin.scripps.edu. The data in other databases mentioned in this study were obtained from their websites (accessed in February 2020) or published papers: MoNA (https://mona.fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/), mzCloud (https://www.mzcloud.org/), GNPS (https://gnps.ucsd.edu/)9, HMDB (https://hmdb.ca/)10 and NIST 17 (https://chemdata.nist.gov/).

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Acknowledgements

This research was partially funded by US National Institutes of Health grants R35 GM130385 (G.S.), P30 MH062261 (G.S.), P01 DA026146 (G.S.) and U01 CA235493 (G.S.) and by Ecosystems and Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies (ENIGMA), a Scientific Focus Area Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231 (G.S.).

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  1. Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Jingchuan Xue, Carlos Guijas, H. Paul Benton & Gary Siuzdak

  2. Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Gary Siuzdak

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J.X., C.G., H.P.B., B.W. and G.S. contributed to data collection, analysis, and manuscript writing. J.X. and C.G. share first authorship.

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Xue, J., Guijas, C., Benton, H.P. et al. METLIN MS2 molecular standards database: a broad chemical and biological resource. Nat Methods 17, 953–954 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0942-5

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