Building in-house libraries to use with the NIST/NIJ DART-MS Data Interpretation Tool

This article presents two programs to help users construct mass spectral libraries for use with the NIST/NIJ DART-MS Data Interpretation Tool (version 3.22). The Full Database Builder program—which is a modification of the original database building script published through NIST—generates libraries that follow the exact specification of the NIST DART-MS Library builder. The Basic Database Builder program requires less information from the user and has fewer computational dependencies, making it an ideal program for users building small in-house libraries for research and testing purposes. The programs are available at https://github.com/asm3-trentu/CRAFTS-DBBuilder.