ParticipantID: mgerlich Category: category2 Authors: Michael Gerlich Affiliations: IPB Halle, Dept. of Stress and Developmental Biology, Halle, Germany Automatic pipeline: yes Spectral libraries: yes Abstract All category2 challenges were converted into MetFusion specific query files, containing the exact mass of the precursor ion as well as a merged peaklist from the spectra with varying collision energies (where applicable). The use of merged spectra is recommended by the MassBank spectral library, which was used as reference library for spectra. The instrument filter was set to use only ESI instruments, thus retrieving no spectra from EI ionization or other ionization types. The resulting candidate lists were treated with an InChIKey-based filter which removes duplicate structures based on connectivity information. The newly ranked candidates were stored in an SDF file which was converted to a text file containing the corresponding SMILES and scoring information as submission. The challenge data was processed with the command line version of MetFusion.