News

Update 23 June 2025: MassBank has a new look! The new MassBank 3.0 system is based on a modern, improved backend and frontend architecture. Enjoy the fresh experience!
Feedback and ideas are very welcome, please post them here.

Update 23 June 2025: MassBank EU representatives including Steffen will be at the Metabolomics Society meeting in Prague June 22-26 2025. Please catch him while you are there!

Update 5 May 2025: A new MassBank-data release 2025.05.1 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15341877 is available. This release contains 646 new spectra from BfG, 265 new spectra from NILU and 7 new spectra from CPU. We welcome our new contributor China Pharmaceutical University (CPU). Thank you for your contributions!

Update 28 Feb. 2025: MassBank 3.0 (beta) is now available! The new system is based on a modern, improved backend and frontend architecture and will replace the current MassBank system soon.
The current prototypic webinterface is available at https://msbi.ipb-halle.de/MassBank/.
Please, feel free to try it out and provide feedback and ideas to the developers here.

Update 26 Nov. 2024: A new MassBank-data release 2024.11 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14221628 is available. This release contains 2058 new spectra from Eawag and 133 from MSSJ, plus some fixes to EPA/Agilent records. We also welcome two new contributors: IBED, University of Amsterdam (9 new spectra) and NILU (128 new spectra). Thank you for your contributions!

Links

MassBank community on GitHub

• MassBank community on GitHub: Checkout for more information on the community and how to contribute to Massbank.
• MassBank Open Access records on GitHub: Contribute your mass spectra and download MassBank spectra for your purposes and re-use.
• MassBank Issue Tracker on GitHub: Leave your feedback and issues on MassBank to improve MassBank (GitHub account required).
• MassBank Data Releases are available on GitHub
• MassBank community on zenodo: Checkout for data releases, reports and presentations regarding MassBank.

MassBank Publications

• Elapavalore et al. (2023) Adding open spectral data to MassBank and PubChem using open source tools to support non-targeted exposomics of mixtures. Environ. Sci. Processes Impacts 25 1788-1801. DOI:10.1039/D3EM00181D.
• Oberacher et al. (2020) A European proposal for quality control and quality assurance of tandem mass spectral libraries. Environ. Sci. Europe 32:43. DOI:10.1186/s12302-020-00314-9.
• Horai et al. (2010) MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences. J. Mass Spectrom. 45:7 703-714. DOI:10.1002/jms.1777.

Metabolomics Spectrum Identifier Resolver

The Metabolomics Spectrum Identifier Resolver is a tool for the high resolution imaging of mass spectra from GNPS/MassIVE, MetaboLights, MS2LDA and MassBank for publications and other purposes. For example MassBank Record: AC000372 resolves in metalolomics-usi-visulation of AC000372.

MassBank RESTful API

A basic RESTful API with simple search functions is available:

• Search by SPLASH
• Search by InChIKey
• Search by a single block of InChIKey