Mass Spectrometry – News and Features

The principles behind the Q TRAP System are ideal for lipidomics, having the big advantage of being able to switch between positive and negative modes within a second.

Researchers are using LC/MS/MS techniques to investigate toxicity of immunosuppressive, antiviral and antibiotic drugs in their research studies.

This relationship will provide Shimadzu's GC/MS users with the benefits of IST's mass spectrometry software, IST for GC/MS.

Proteins, associated with breast cancer, can potentially be used as markers for detection or prevention or as targets for the design of drugs to treat the disease.

Bii and Turbinia have applied this discovery-engine as a biomarker software tool to improve the quality of mass spectrometry data used in proteomics and other life sciences disciplines.

Bruker Daltonics will provide ScoreBooster™, Metascore™, ProteinExtractor™ and ProteinScape™ database solution, which together are expected to further improve the quality and validation of information and knowledge gained from proteomics projects.

The modas platform is being developed to incorporate data from a disparate range of techniques.

CAN supports the comprehensive statistical analysis of peptide profiling data and allows associating peptides, which are closely related in terms of peptide biochemistry.

Thermo Electron Corporation will be unveiling its Proteomicsⁿ suite of instrumentation at HUPO 4th Annual World Congress, International Congress Centre Munich, Germany, August 28 to September 1 2005.

Icoria will use its proprietary metabolomics platform identify biomarkers of toxicity in animal models.