MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM

摘要

Provided is a mass spectrometric data analyzing method for deducing the structure of an unknown substance from data obtained by an MSn analysis, in which a structural candidate having a high degree of freedom for covering a structural change of the known substance can be created. In the mass spectrometric data analyzing method according to the present invention, a candidate of the partial structure of a known substance which is structurally similar to an unknown substance as the target of deduction is created by eliminating a part of the structure of the known substance (Step S1). Previously given candidates of known additional structural parts are individually added to each candidate of the partial structure of the known substance, thus forming various combinations (Step S5). All the structural formulae that can be derived from each combination are created as the structural candidates of the unknown substance (Step S6).