foodMASST a mass spectrometry search tool for foods and beverages

Kiana A West; Robin Schmid; Julia M Gauglitz; Mingxun Wang; Pieter C Dorrestein

doi:10.1038/s41538-022-00137-3

foodMASST a mass spectrometry search tool for foods and beverages

NPJ Sci Food. 2022 Apr 20;6(1):22. doi: 10.1038/s41538-022-00137-3.

Authors

Kiana A West^{1

2}, Robin Schmid^{1

2}, Julia M Gauglitz^{1

2}, Mingxun Wang^{1

2}, Pieter C Dorrestein^{3

4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
² Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
³ Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. pdorrestein@ucsd.health.edu.
⁴ Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. pdorrestein@ucsd.health.edu.
⁵ Center for Microbiome Innovation, Joan and Irwin Jacobs School of Engineering; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. pdorrestein@ucsd.health.edu.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. pdorrestein@ucsd.health.edu.

Abstract

There is a growing interest in unraveling the chemical complexity of our diets. To help the scientific community gain insight into the molecules present in foods and beverages that we ingest, we created foodMASST, a search tool for MS/MS spectra (of both known and unknown molecules) against a growing metabolomics food and beverage reference database. We envision foodMASST will become valuable for nutrition research and to assess the potential uniqueness of dietary biomarkers to represent specific foods or food classes.

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