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Different methods of data preprocessing were evaluated for the compression of Fourier transform-infrared spectral libraries by principal component analysis (PCA). The effect of noise on compressed library searches was examined. A PCA compression of an infrared library achieved an 81% reduction in size without any loss in search performance.
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