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The Expanding Universe of Mass Analyzer Configurations for Biological Analysis

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Plant Proteomics

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Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that measures the mass-to-charge ratio of electrically charged gas-phase particles. All mass spectrometers combine ion formation, mass analysis, and ion detection. Although mass analyzers can be regarded as sophisticated devices that manipulate ions in space and time, the rich diversity of possible ways to combine ion separation, focusing, and detection in dynamic mass spectrometers accounts for the large number of instrument designs. A historical perspective of the progress in mass spectrometry that since 1965 until today have contributed to position this technique as an indispensable tool for biological research has been recently addressed by a privileged witness of this golden age of MS (Gelpí J. Mass Spectrom 43:419–435, 2008; Gelpí J. Mass Spectrom 44:1137–1161, 2008). The aim of this chapter is to highlight the view that the operational principles of mass spectrometry can be understood by a simple mathematical language, and that an understanding of the basic concepts of mass spectrometry is necessary to take the most out of this versatile technique.

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    Juan J. Calvete

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Calvete, J.J. (2014). The Expanding Universe of Mass Analyzer Configurations for Biological Analysis. In: Jorrin-Novo, J., Komatsu, S., Weckwerth, W., Wienkoop, S. (eds) Plant Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1072. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-631-3_6

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