SpectraGuru - Spectral Analysis Application

SpectraGuru is currently under development! Thank you for your patience.

Find our documentation page: here!

What is SpectraGuru?

SpectraGuru is a spectral analysis application designed to provide user-friendly tools for processing and visualizing spectra, aimed at accelerating your research. It functions as a dashboard or a specialized tool within a Python environment, organized with various modular functions that allow users to process spectroscopy data in a pipeline. SpectraGuru is based on the Python Streamlit framework.

Cite SpectraGuru

If SpectraGuru contributes to your research, please cite our papers:

1. Fengbo Ma, Jiaheng Cui, Amit Kumar, Yanjun Yang, Xianyan Chen, and Yiping Zhao. Comprehensive Open-Source Ecosystem for Raman and SERS Spectroscopy: Introducing SpectraGuru. Analytical Chemistry 2026, 98 (15), 11186–11196. Read online.

2. Fengbo Ma, Jiaheng Cui, Amit Kumar, Yanjun Yang, Jessica McCabe Hutcheson, Xianyan Chen, Haijian Sun, and Yiping Zhao. SpectraGuru: a community-guided path toward scalable Raman and SERS analysis. Proceedings of SPIE 13846, Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy 2026: Advances in Research and Industry, 1384608 (5 March 2026). Read online.

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Quick start

Visit our site

Our application is hosted here! Please use it directly, as easy as it can go.

Deploy locally

You do not have to host it locally to use the application. But if you wish to deploy it locally, please follow these steps:

1. Install Python and dependencies

   SpectraGuru is tested with Python 3.12. The important runtime packages are pinned in requirements.txt:

   • streamlit==1.64.0
   • pandas==2.3.2
   • numpy==2.5.3
   • scipy==1.16.2
   • scikit-learn==1.7.2
   • matplotlib==3.10.6
   • seaborn==0.13.2
   • altair==5.5.0
   • streamlit-extras==0.7.8
   • psycopg2==2.9.10
   • PyWavelets==1.9.0
   • filelock==3.25.2
   • deprecation==2.1.0

   Install them with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Clone the main repo

cd <FILE LOCATION>

git clone https://github.com/FengboMa/SpectraGuru_beta.git

3. Run SpectraGuru Home.py
4. Run the following command

streamlit run "SpectraGuru_beta/SpectraGuru Home.py"

5. Your local version should be up in port 8501 by default in your favorite browser!

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About this Project

SpectraGuru was started in June 2024 by Dr. Yiping Zhao and Dr. Xianyan Chen at the University of Georgia. It brings together open-source Raman and SERS data processing, visualization, and analysis in a browser-based application. Community feedback guides the development of accessible, reproducible workflows for research and education. Learn more about the team at Zhao Nano Lab.

Funding and cloud infrastructure support

SpectraGuru is supported by:

• The National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, award No. 2518273.
• NSF CloudBank, through ACCESS, for Sustaining Cloud Infrastructure for SpectraGuru: An Open-Source Raman/SERS Data, AI, and Community Platform, project ID CHE260089.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) grant AP230A000000C009 and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant 2023-67015-39237.

  

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Help and Support

If you have any questions, comments, and observations, please let us know! Email: zhao-nano-lab@uga.edu.