MassTech Inc., a provider of AP-MALDI technology for mass spectrometry today announced that it will develop an Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption\/Ionization (AP\/MALDI) ion source for the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae LC\/MS\/MS System with the assistance of Applied Biosystems\/MDS SCIEX. Applied Biosystems\/MDS SCIEX, the manufacturer of the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae system, is a joint venture between Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, and MDS Inc. (TSE:MDS; NYSE:MDZ). The 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae system is used during most stages of drug discovery and development to identify and quantify peptides, proteins, and small molecules in biological samples.<\/p>\n
The combination of AP\/MALDI with the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae system should allow scientists to acquire MS\/MS data from ions generated by MALDI thus increasing the versatility of the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae instrument. In addition, the users may benefit from Pulsed Dynamic Focusing (PDF), a patented technology from MassTech, Inc. that significantly improves AP\/MALDI sensitivity. Since AP\/MALDI takes place at atmospheric pressure, sample plates are loaded without breaking vacuum – simplifying operation and greatly increasing sample throughput. The AP\/MALDI source will support the standard Applied Biosystems 100-spot plate format and the MassTech proprietary 96-spot plate format, both providing compatibility with robotic systems used for sample deposition.<\/p>\n
*Q TRAP is a registered trademark of Applied Biosystems\/MDS SCIEX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MassTech Inc., a provider of AP-MALDI technology for mass spectrometry today announced that it will develop an Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption\/Ionization (AP\/MALDI) ion source for the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae LC\/MS\/MS System with the assistance of Applied Biosystems\/MDS SCIEX. Applied Biosystems\/MDS SCIEX, the manufacturer of the 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae system, is a joint venture between Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, and MDS Inc. (TSE:MDS; NYSE:MDZ). The 4000 Q TRAP\u00ae system is used during most stages of drug…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apmaldi.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}