Terms And Abbreviations

Terms and abbreviations commonly used in CropMetaDB.

LC-MS

liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

LC-MS/MS

liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry

MS2T library

MS/MS spectral tag (MS2T) library. MS2T libraries of CropMetaDB contains MS/MS spectra of known metabolites and unknown metabolites from crops.

MS2T Accession Label

Each MS2T accession was labeled in the format ‘RE0147p′ for example; this denotes the 147th spectrum (0147) derived from the library of rice (RE) extracts obtained in the positive ion mode (p, positive).

IUPAC

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

InChI

IUPAC International Chemical Identifier

SMILES

Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification

PubChem

a public database of chemicals and chemical information

CID

PubChem ID

KEGG

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes