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Standards of metabolites were tested using liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry. In CCSBase and QSRR predictor machine learning models, experimental results were used to generate predicted CCS and Rt of the Human Metabolome Database. From 542 standards, 266 and 301 compounds were detected in positive and negative electrospray ionization mode, respectively, corresponding to 380 different metabolites. CCS and Rt were then predicted using machine learning tools for almost 114,000 metabolites. R2 score of the linear regression between predicted and measured data achieved 0.938 and 0.898 for CCS and Rt, respectively, demonstrating the models\u2019 reliability. A CCS and Rt index filter of mean error \u00b1 2 standard deviations could remove most misidentifications. Its application to data generated from a toxicology study on tobacco cigarettes reduced hits by 76%. 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