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OpenSpecy: Analyze, Process, Identify, and Share Raman and (FT)IR Spectra

2021 6 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Win Cowger, Zacharias Steinmetz, Hazel Vaquero, Nga-Weng Ivy Leong, Andrea Faltynkova, Hannah Sherrod

Summary

OpenSpecy is a free, open-source software tool that helps researchers analyze Raman and FTIR spectra for identifying and characterizing microplastics and other environmental particles. The tool addresses a key bottleneck in microplastic research by making spectral analysis more accessible and standardized across laboratories.

Raman and (FT)IR spectral analysis tool for plastic particles and other environmental samples (Cowger et al. 2021, ). With read_any(), Open Specy provides a single function for reading individual, batch, or map spectral data files like .asp, .csv, .jdx, .spc, .spa, .0, and .zip. process_spec() simplifies processing spectra, including smoothing, baseline correction, range restriction and flattening, intensity conversions, wavenumber alignment, and min-max normalization. Spectra can be identified in batch using an onboard reference library (Cowger et al. 2020, ) using match_spec(). A Shiny app is available via run_app() or online at .

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