Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry manipulation of categorization data

摘要

Method, system, apparatus, and/or computer program. Mass spectrometer test data (eg, a medical patient's blood sample) may be associated with metadata information. Relevant metadata information may be relevant to the medical patient. A subset of the sample reference library may be based on related metadata information. According to an embodiment, the sample reference library may contain a plurality of sets of mass spectrometer reference data. An embodiment matches mass spectrometer test data with mass spectrometer reference data of a selected subset of a sample reference library. An embodiment determines characteristic information of a source of mass spectrometer test data (eg, a medical patient) based on known properties of the matched mass spectrometer reference data.