Mass Spectral Similarity Mapping Applied to Fentanyl Analogs

: This manuscript outlines a straight-forward procedure for generating a map of similarity between spectra of a set. When applied to a reference set of spectra for Type I fentanyl analogs (molecules differing from fentanyl by a single modification), the map illuminates clustering that is applicable to automated structure assignment of unidentified molecules. An open-source software implementation that generates mass spectral similarity mappings of unknowns against a library of Type I fentanyl analog spectra is available at http://github.com/asm3-nist/FentanylClassifier.