Zuffa S., Schmid R., Bauermeister A., Gomes P. W. P., Caraballo-Rodriguez A. M., El Abiead Y., Aron A. T., Gentry E. C., Zemlin J., Gindro K., Massana Codina J., Dorrestein P.
microbeMASST: A taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data.
microbeMASST, a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool, tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments. Leveraging a curated database of >60,000 microbial monocultures, users can search known and unknown MS/MS spectra and link them to their respective microbial producers via MS/MS fragmentation patterns. Identification of microbe-derived metabolites and relative producers without a priori knowledge will vastly enhance the understanding of microorganisms’ role in ecology and human health.