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- | `references/cloud_and_ocr.md` | Vision descriptions, OCR plugin, Azure services, credentials, and data flow |
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- name: matchms
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- description: Process, clean, compare, and search tandem mass spectra with matchms. Use for MS/MS file I/O, metadata harmonization, peak filtering, spectral similarity, library matching, score matrices, and molecular-similarity networks. Use pyopenms instead for LC-MS feature detection or proteomics pipelines.
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- allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
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- license: Apache-2.0
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- compatibility: Requires Python >=3.10,<3.15, uv, and matchms 0.33.1. Local file workflows need no credentials; metabolomics-USI loading requires network access.
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- metadata:
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- version: "2.0"
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- skill-author: K-Dense Inc.
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- # Matchms
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- ## Purpose and Scope
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- Matchms is a Python package for importing, cleaning, processing, and comparing
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- tandem mass spectra. This skill targets **matchms 0.33.1**, released 2026-06-08,
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- and corrects several breaking API changes that older tutorials do not reflect.
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- Use matchms for:
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- - MS/MS library search and query-versus-reference scoring
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- - Metadata harmonization, adduct/precursor handling, and peak filtering
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- - Cosine, modified-cosine, neutral-loss, approximate, and entropy scoring
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- - Structured score matrices, top-hit extraction, and spectral networks
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- - MGF, MSP, mzML, mzXML, JSON, mzSpecLib, and metabolomics-USI workflows
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- - Vendor raw-file conversion — convert to mzML/mzXML first
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- - A validated compound-identification protocol — similarity is evidence, not
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- ## Install the Verified Release
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- ## Operating Workflow
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- 1. **Inspect the inputs.** Record format, spectrum count, MS level, precursor
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- 3. **Apply the same peak-processing steps** to query and reference spectra.
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- 4. **Drop invalid spectra explicitly.** Many `require_*` filters return `None`.
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- 5. **Choose the score from the scientific question**, not from convenience.
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- Modified and neutral-loss scores require valid `precursor_mz`.
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- 6. **Estimate `len(references) * len(queries)` before scoring.** A sparse result
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- 7. **Report score settings and evidence.** Include tolerance, preprocessing,
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- ## Current API Guardrails
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