Software for use in connection with detection, identification, classification and assessment of known and unknown materials, namely, chemical, biological, explosive, hazardous, illicit drugs, food and beverage contaminants and spoilage, environmental and weather conditions; computer software and software algorithms for use in manipulating received or inputted data and for use in database management, imaging and spectroscopy systems, spectroscopes, endoscopes, fiberscopes, microscopes, macrosc...