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OpenMS 3 interfaces with SIRIUS

OpenMS 3 provides interfaces with SIRIUS for molecular formula and and molecular structure predictions.

OpenMS is an open-source project that boasts a comprehensive set of algorithms, modular tools, and seamless interoperability with open-standard file formats, ensuring flexibility and ease of integration into existing workflows.

J. Pfeuffer et al. Nat Methods (2024). 10.1038/s41592-024-02197-7

Top 50: AI in health and life sciences

CANOPUS, our tool to predict the complete chemical class hierarchy of an unknown compound by assigning ClassyFire compound classes, is among the top 50 cited articles on AI in health and life sciences.
B. S. Glicksberg et al. Applied Sciences (2024) 10.3390/app14020785

The conceptual leap of SIRIUS structure annotation

Already over 30 years ago, Curry and Rumelhart introduced one of the first machine learning approaches to predict the presence or absence of key chemical substructures from tandem mass spectra. There are noteworthy conceptual similarities between their approach and SIRIUS structure annotation (CSI:FIngerID).
What they did not see was that a large number of weakly accurate predictions can still allow molecules to be unambiguously identified – a crucial conceptual leap that makes CSIFingerID the state-of-the-art method currently available for identifying small molecules from their MS/MS spectra.
M. A. Skinnider. Nat Rev Chem (2024) doi: 10.1038/s41570-023-00570-2