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. 2020 Jan 22;412(6):1303–1315. doi: 10.1007/s00216-019-02351-7

Table 3.

CFM-ID results for ENTACT mixture compounds across three scoring approaches (Fig. 2). Candidate compounds from the CFM-ID database were limited to those having an MS-Ready formula matching that of the known (spiked) substance

Approach 1 Approach 2 Approach 3
CEexperimental 10 20 40 10 20 40 Σa
CEin silico 10 20 40 Σ Σ Σ Σ
No. of compounds scored 363 368 360 363 368 360 377
Number of true positives
  Top hit 159 178 123 171 180 128 188
  Within top 5 239 250 194 243 252 194 268
  Within top 20 284 291 232 295 292 232 321
Percentage of true positives
  Top hit 44% 48% 34% 47% 49% 36% 50%
  Within top 5 66% 68% 54% 67% 68% 54% 71%
  Within top 20 78% 79% 64% 81% 79% 64% 85%
Average percentile for true positives 82nd 83rd 76th 83rd 84th 77th 84th
Average quotient for true positives 0.77 0.73 0.57 0.77 0.75 0.59 0.79

aSum of three CEs