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Join the hundreds of researchers from around the world who are part of the Open Specy community by analyzing, sharing, processing, and identifying their Raman and IR spectra.

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Citation

Cowger W, Steinmetz Z, Gray A, Munno K, Lynch J, Hapich H, Primpke S, De Frond H, Rochman C, Herodotou O (2021). “Microplastic Spectral Classification Needs an Open Source Community: Open Specy to the Rescue!” Analytical Chemistry, 93(21), 7543–7548. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00123.

Open Specy is free and open source thanks to our partners:

Monetary Partners

Thriving (10,000–100,000$)

Mcpike Zima Charitable Foundation

Maintaining (1,000–10,000$)

Supporting (100–1,000$)

Jennifer Gadd

Saving (<100$)

Susanne Brander (Oregon State University), Jeremy Conkle (TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI)

In-Kind Partners

Thriving (10,000–100,000$)

Win Cowger, Zacharias Steinmetz

Maintaining (1,000–10,000$)

Sebastian Primpke, Andrew Gray, Chelsea Rochman, Orestis Herodotu, Hannah De Frond, Keenan Munno, Hannah Hapich, Jennifer Lynch

Supporting (100–1,000$)

Shreyas Patankar, Andrea Faltynkova, Alexandre Dehaut, Gabriel Erni Cassola, Aline Carvalho

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Instructions

Download Open Data

Reference spectra was sourced from open access resources online, peer reviewed publications, and corporate donations. In the future, spectra that is uploaded to the tool will be incorporated to the reference library to make it even better.

Contribute Spectra

To share spectra upload a file to the upload file tab. If you selected Share a copy of your spectra will be sent to the Community Data Warehouse on Open Science Framework. To add additional metadata, fill in the avaliable metadata fields and click -Share Data-. The spectra file that you uploaded along with your responses will be copied to the a -With Metadata- subfolder at the link below. All shared data holds a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

Tool Validation

All parameters in this tool are tested to validate that the tool is functioning as best as possible and determine the best default parameters to use. Our current validation proceedure includes correcting duplicated entries in the reference libraries, checking for spectra in metadata that isn't in the spectral library, and ensuring the the default parameters provide over 80% accuracy in the first match.

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