The experimental and computational mass spectrometry community is invited to participate in the second round of an open contest on the identification of small molecules from mass spectrometry data!

The identification of unknowns is the major challenge in metabolomics, environmental sciences and other fields, yet the exchange of ideas and a systematic comparative evaluation of alternative strategies is quite limited. In CASMI spectral information for a set of compounds is published, and participants propose identifications.

CASMI 2013 is the second round of CASMI, organised by representatives from the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (MSSJ), led by Prof. Takaaki Nishioka from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST).

The aim is to bring all mass spectral communities together to show off their different methods on a common data set. Thus, although this is a competition, all participants should benefit and the real winner is the field of small molecule identification.

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