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FTMS: Overcoming challenges
| Type: | Application |
Journal Article |
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| Number: | Technology |
AC0106 |
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| Year | Products |
2006 |
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Katie Cottingham |
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FEBRUARY 1 , 2 0 0 6 / ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY |
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Described by many experts as the ultimate mass spectrometers, FTMS instruments have the highest resolving power and mass accuracy of any MS device on the market. With FTMS instruments, researchers can separate signals from ions that have nearly identical m/z values and obtain elemental compositions. Because of these advantages, the devices are ideal for proteomics, metabolomics, and petroleomics applications. Despite a stellar reputation for performance, however, FTMS instruments have had an equally strong reputation for being expensive behemoths that are hard to use and maintain. But experts say this is changing, partly because of the increasing demand for user-friendly instruments from proteomics researchers and increased competition in the FTMS market. Company representatives count core facilities and smaller, investigator- led laboratories among their customers, and they say that instrument sales are increasing 25–35% every year. Table 1, which is meant to be representative rather than comprehensive, lists commercially available FTMS devices. |
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