  Raman spectroscopy provides a vibrational profile of the molecules and thus
can be used to uniquely identify different kind of materials. This sort of
fingerprinting molecules has thus led to widespread application of Raman
spectrum in various fields like medical dignostics, forensics, mineralogy,
bacteriology and virology etc. Despite the recent rise in Raman spectra data
volume, there has not been any significant effort in developing generalized
machine learning methods for Raman spectra analysis. We examine, experiment and
evaluate existing methods and conjecture that neither current sequential models
nor traditional machine learning models are satisfactorily sufficient to
analyze Raman spectra. Both has their perks and pitfalls, therefore we attempt
to mix the best of both worlds and propose a novel network architecture
RamanNet. RamanNet is immune to invariance property in CNN and at the same time
better than traditional machine learning models for the inclusion of sparse
connectivity. Our experiments on 4 public datasets demonstrate superior
performance over the much complex state-of-the-art methods and thus RamanNet
has the potential to become the defacto standard in Raman spectra data analysis
