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Update 29 August 2022: Server maintenance on 30 August 2022, 9:00 - 9:30 am MEST (7:00 - 7:30 am UTC). You may observe timeouts during this period.

Update 05 January 2022: A Happy and Healthy New Year 2022 to all our friends and contributors! We deployed the new Massbank system version 2.1.13 fixing CVE-2021-44228.

Update 19 December 2021: We deployed the new Massbank system version 2.1.12 fixing CVE-2021-44228.

Update 14 December 2021: We are excited to announce the new MassBank data release. We added 3251 new mass spectra of 304 compounds contributed kindly by Eawag, University of Antwerp, University of Athens, Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, and INRAE France. The release version is 2021.12 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5775684.

Update 14 December 2021: We are excited to announce the new MassBank data release. We added 3251 new mass spectra of 304 compounds contributed kindly by Eawag, University of Antwerp, University of Athens, Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, and INRAE France. The release version is 2021.12 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5775684. We also deployed the new Massbank system version 2.1.11 fixing for example CVE-2021-44228.

Update 14 December 2021: We also deployed the new Massbank system version 2.1.11 fixing for example CVE-2021-44228.

Update 21 September 2021: Server maintenance on 28 September 2021, 9:00 - 9:30 am MEST (7:00 - 7:30 am UTC). An operation system upgrade will require a reboot of MassBank Europe and thus you might observe a short outtage time..

Update 3 September 2021: MassBank Europe spectra annotations in PubChem are online now. What a great enhancement! MassBank Europe spectra go online via our new MassBank PubChem deposition / annotation repository pipeline with code developed by LCSB-ECI. Find an example for arsanilic acid at PubChem. See also the related tweet.

Update 5 March 2021: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. We added 159 new mass spectra containing tentatative mass spectra of pesticide metabolites. They include Markush structures for the first time, for example a mass spectra of the tentatively identified atrazine-desamine. The release version is 2021.03 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4563726. The whole MassBank content is available in NIST msp format for integration in mass spectrometry software.

Update 8 February 2021: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. The release version is 2021.02 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4506480. The whole MassBank content is available in NIST msp format for integration in mass spectrometry software. The MassBank_NIST.msp file contains all records to be used in vendors' software library search. We also provide a msp file in RIKEN format for integration in MS DIAL. Enjoy and report your experiences, please!

Update 26 November 2020: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. The release version is 2020.11 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4289361. The whole MassBank content is available in NIST msp format for the first time! The MassBank.msp file contains all records to be used in venodors' software library search. Enjoy and report your experiences, please!

Update 27 October 2020: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. The release version is 2020.10 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4134734. We provide now a sql dump named MassBank-2020.10.sql. This dump contains all record information to support your implementations. Visit the populate-database section of the documentation for details.

Update 9 September 2020: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. The release version is 2020.09 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4020329. LCSB contributed 7299 new records.

Update 20 July 2020: The MassBank developers and MassBank contributors are proud to be part of the GitHub Archive Programm. MassBank is now human code heritage as a long term and active open source community!

Update 17 July 2020: The new MassBank data release is available and deployed on MassBank Europe. The release version is 2020.06 with the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3903207.

Update 16 March 2020: We are proud to announce the publication of new MS library related paper A European proposal for quality control and quality assurance of tandem mass spectral libraries. All related mass spectra are available HBM4EU library.

Update 09 March 2020: MassBank Europe is now on PubChem. See also on Twitter.

Update 19 February 2020: The new MassBank server system was deployed today. Enjoy and keep us updated if any error occurs. We implemented the Metabolomics Spectrum Identifier Resolver for the high resolution imaging of mass spectra. For example MassBank Record: AC000372 resolves in metalolomics-usi-visulation of AC000372.