I presented a 5-part Wiley Webinar Series in August-September, 2020 on EI library searches. The series demonstrates the effective use of NIST software such as MS Search, MS Interpreter, and AMDIS with the Wiley, NIST, and user-created libraries.
<h3>The Part I will cover:</h3>
Detailed Handouts including tables of content are available in the <a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/library?search=spectral%20searches%20with%20nist%20ms%20search&amp;manufacturerItems=55">LabRulezGCMS library</a>.
<ul>
<li>NIST Mass Spectrometry Software and Wiley Libraries</li>
<li>Help Files for NIST Search</li>
<li>General Windows commands/functions </li>
<li>Customizing the windows </li>
<li>Tour of NIST Search Program </li>
<li>Critical parameters for searching library</li>
<li>Setting up presearch parameters</li>
<li>Primary Libraries of EI Spectra and Associated Structures </li>
<li>Other EI Libraries: Wiley/NIST Combined and specialty </li>
<li>Selecting the libraries used for spectral searches </li>
<li>Select the libraries used for similar structure searches </li>
<li>Selecting limits to avoid high match factors for partial spectra </li>
<li>Constraints applied to hit list after the list is determined </li>
<li>Saving setup of standard search parameters </li>
<li>Searching demonstration/Tip No. Synonyms and databases </li>
<li>Reverse match for mixtures versus standard match .</li>
<li>Display of related species </li>
<li>InChIKey field link to PubChem on web </li>
<li>Updating indices in older libraries</li>
<li>Library spectra m/z values by nominal not exact mass </li>
<li>Retention indices (Kovat) determined by users in AMDIS</li>
<li>Different derivative displays</li>
<li>Using NIST software to obtain proposed nominal MW and substructures</li>
<li>Webinar references </li>
<li>Acknowledgements</li>
</ul>
<h3>Future parts will focus on:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1086">Part II: Structure Searches with NIST MS Search and Using MS Interpreter</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1109">Part III: AMDIS (NIST) for Processing EI Mass Spectral Data Files</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1128">Part IV: Advanced NIST Hybrid Searchof EI and MS/MS Spectra</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1160">Part V: Creating and Sharing User EI and MS/MS Libraries</a>
</li>
</ul>

Wiley Seminar - Part I: Spectral Searches with NIST MS Search

I presented a 5-part Wiley Webinar Series in August-September, 2020 on EI library searches. The series demonstrates the effective use of NIST software such as MS Search, MS Interpreter, and AMDIS with the Wiley, NIST, and user-created libraries.
<h3>The Part II will cover:</h3>
Detailed Handouts including tables of content are available in the <a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/library?search=spectral%20searches%20with%20nist%20ms%20search&amp;manufacturerItems=55">LabRulezGCMS library</a>.
<ul>
<li>Webinar topics </li>
<li>Help Files for NIST Search </li>
<li>General Windows commands/functions </li>
<li>Primary Libraries of EI Spectra and Associated Structures </li>
<li>Select the libraries used for Exact Structure searches </li>
<li>Obtaining structures from chemical drawing program </li>
<li>Search for similar structures after inserting clipboard structure </li>
<li>Sending Structure from MS Search to drawing program </li>
<li>Tips for displaying structure search results </li>
<li>Tips for displaying related structures in structure searches </li>
<li>Search for exact structures </li>
<li>Using compare window to display multiple spectra </li>
<li>View of hit list structure search options utilized </li>
<li>MS interpreter for correlating structure to spectrum</li>
<li>Do the 3 isomers of methyl hydroxybenzoate fragment differently?</li>
<li>Any structure and associated spectrum sent to MS Interpreter</li>
<li>Accurate mass spectrum correlated to structure in MS Interpreter </li>
<li>Webinar references </li>
<li>Acknowledgements</li>
</ul>
<h3>Future parts will focus on:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1109">Part III: AMDIS (NIST) for Processing EI Mass Spectral Data Files</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1128">Part IV: Advanced NIST Hybrid Searchof EI and MS/MS Spectra</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1160">Part V: Creating and Sharing User EI and MS/MS Libraries</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>The past sections have focused on:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gcms.labrulez.com/article/1066">Part I: Spectral Searches with NIST MS Search</a></li>
</ul>

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