BS, background subtraction; CCS, collision cross section; CE, collision energy; CID, collision-induced dissociation; DDA, data-dependent acquisition; DE, dynamic exclusion; DIA, data-independent acquisition; DIF, diagnostic ion filtering; DM, database matching; Data acquisition; Data post-processing; EL, exclusion list; EMS, enhanced mass spectrum; EPI, enhanced product ion; FS, full scan; HCD, high-energy C-trap dissociation; IDA, information dependent acquisition; IM, ion mobility; IPF, isotope pattern filtering; ISCID, in-source collision-induced dissociation; LC, liquid chromatography; LTQ-Orbitrap, linear ion-trap/orbitrap; Liquid chromatography−mass spectrometry; MDF, mass defect filtering; MIM, multiple ion monitoring; MN, molecular networking; MRM, multiple reaction monitoring; MS, mass spectrometry; MTSF, mass spectral trees similarity filter; NL, neutral loss; NLF, neutral loss filtering; NLS, neutral loss scan; NRF, nitrogen rule filtering; PCA, principal component analysis; PIL, precursor ion list; PIS, precursor ion scan; PLS-DA, partial least square-discriminant analysis; Q-TRAP, hybrid triple quadrupole-linear ion trap; QSRR, quantitative structure retention relationship; QqQ, triple quadrupole; Qualitative analysis; RT, retention time; SA, statistical analysis; TCM, traditional Chinese medicine; Traditional Chinese medicine; UHPLC, ultra-high performance liquid chromatography; cMRM, conventional multiple reaction monitoring; sMRM, scheduled multiple reaction monitoring