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Metabolite identification: are you sure? And how do your peers gauge your confidence?

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  1. Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Darren J. Creek

  2. University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

    Warwick B. Dunn

  3. University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Oliver Fiehn

  4. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Julian L. Griffin

  5. Plant Research International and Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Robert D. Hall

  6. The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, USA

    Zhentian Lei & Lloyd W. Sumner

  7. HighChem, Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia

    Robert Mistrik

  8. Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Steffen Neumann

  9. Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    Emma L. Schymanski

  10. Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia

    Robert Trengove

  11. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Jean-Luc Wolfender

  12. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Jean-Luc Wolfender

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This work is supported by the Metabolite Identification Task Group of the Metabolomics Society. All authors have contributed equally to this work.

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Creek, D.J., Dunn, W.B., Fiehn, O. et al. Metabolite identification: are you sure? And how do your peers gauge your confidence?. Metabolomics 10, 350–353 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-014-0656-8

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