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Table 1 User-specified parameters and scoring function choices, along with their definitions

From: Determining the parent and associated fragment formulae in mass spectrometry via the parent subformula graph

Parameter

Equations

Description

\({\varvec{E}}, {\varvec{m}}, N\)

(5)-(6)

The alphabet of elements, their masses, and their number

\(\delta =\delta _1\)

(10)

Threshold for likely parent-candidate formula selection

\(\delta _{2\ldots N_{\text {peak}}}\)

(24)

Threshold for likely fragment-candidate formula selection

\(M_{\text {lower}}\), \(M_{\text {upper}}\)

(25)

The minimum and maximum plausible masses for parent ions

\(I_{\text {noise}}\)

(4)

Intensity cutoff for fragment masses

\(s_{\text {ne}}\)

(20)

Normalized edge-count score

\(s_{\text {LBJ}}\)

(22)

Li-Bohman-Jayatilaka product score

\(s_{v}\)

(18)

MZmine 2 normalised vertex count