For chemists, it is crucial to know the advantages of different data repositories in order to find the best fit for their research data requirements. Here, we provide a brief overview of MassBank EU as part of our series “repositories in profile”.
MassBank EU – High Quality Mass Spectral Database
Basic information
❏ Homepage: https://massbank.eu/MassBank/
❏ Creation date: 2006
❏ Country: DE, JPN
❏ Domain: Chemistry, Life Science
❏ Usage: Open Access
❏ Target group: Analytical chemists, metabolomics, biochemists, bioinformaticians
❏ User documentation: Is available on the website
❏ Number of datasets: https://massbank.eu/MassBank/RecordIndex
❏ Recommended by journals/societies: Official database of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
❏ Listed in: re3data: r3d100011839, FAIRsharing: FAIRsharing.dk451a, bio.tools: massbank, Wikidata: Property:P6689 Q24088019, Identifiers.org: massbank, PubChem: Data Source ID: 23999
Functionalities and technical information
❏ Content: Mass spectral data of known, unknown and provisionally identified substances
❏ Content origin: From community users and projects
❏ Searchable content: Compound and mass spectrometry information, peaks
❏ Accepted data types: MassBank format
❏ Used standards/ontologies: Internal MassBank Record Format
❏ Curation: Via MassBank record validator; GitHub issues
❏ Access rights/license information/embargo: Copyright; individual licenses based on creative commons; no embargo
❏ AAI solution: GitHub (Read access uncontrolled, write access for allowed GitHub accounts)
❏ Persistent Identifier system: MassBank Record ID (Accession), USI (Universal Spectrum Identifier)
❏ Authority identifier system: No
❏ Used Software: https://massbank.github.io/MassBank-documentation/developer_documentation.html; https://github.com/MassBank/MassBank-web
❏ Interfaces: Interface for data import via Git (MassBank record format), interface for data export (JSON-LD), REST API
❏ Further functionalities/tools: RMassBank (separated data processing/analysis tool)