Fake drugs: Using Baseline Spectral Fingerprinting and a sorting algorithm to infer quality of medications

• Christian Salmon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salmon, Margaret Salmon, Ronny Priefer, Michael Rust, Aliea Afnan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health Engineering, Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Margaret Salmon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salmon, Margaret Salmon, Ronny Priefer, Michael Rust, Aliea Afnan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: margaret@innovationscz.org

  Affiliation InnovationsCZ, San Francisco, CA United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4780-229X

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• Marcus Paoletti ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MP and EX also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation InnovationsCZ, San Francisco, CA United States of America

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• Elaine Xu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MP and EX also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation InnovationsCZ, San Francisco, CA United States of America

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• Ronny Priefer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salmon, Margaret Salmon, Ronny Priefer, Michael Rust, Aliea Afnan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael Rust ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salmon, Margaret Salmon, Ronny Priefer, Michael Rust, Aliea Afnan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Aliea Afnan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Salmon, Margaret Salmon, Ronny Priefer, Michael Rust, Aliea Afnan

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Center for Global Health Engineering, Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

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