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Free White Paper Examines Challenge of Coeluting Compounds & Finds “Not All Deconvolution is Created Equal”
Contract laboratories are under tremendous pressure to increase throughput or production and improve detection limits. For samples that are complex these goals are not congruent with the task of providing indisputable identification of chemical entities under ultrafast conditions.
A free white paper examining the challenge of coeluting compounds – available at: http://www.ionsigtech.com/notall – has concluded that “not all deconvolution is created equal.”
Noth Smithfield, RI (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- Contract laboratories are under tremendous pressure to increase throughput or production and improve detection limits. For samples that are complex these goals are not congruent with the task of providing indisputable identification of chemical entities under ultrafast conditions.
A free white paper examining the challenge of coeluting compounds – available at: http://www.ionsigtech.com/notall – has concluded that “not all deconvolution is created equal.”
“While labs must run analyses faster to be competitive, they cannot sacrifice data quality. This is especially true in highly-regulated markets such as environment, foods, and pharmaceuticals. If an analyst can't document data quality, the sample analysis information is considered unusable,” John Moore, president, Ion Signature Technology.
Similarly, research and development (R&D) and manufacturing support labs must produce accurate data to protect their brand equity. This is particularly true when dealing with complex matrices as found in food, beverage, flavor and fragrances.
Mass spectrometry manufacturers rely on ion extraction and best-fit, target compound "library matching" to determine compound identity. While this works well when dealing with pure standards or clean samples, the majority of customer samples are far from pure.
A new approach called "deconvolution" – a powerful and proven mathematical technique for extracting information from background signals and matrix noise – is revolutionizing the process. But, be forewarned. As the white paper concludes, not all deconvolution is created equal.
The free white paper, Not All Deconvolution is Created Equal, examines the options and details system requirements that labs need to accurately identify compounds while reducing sample prep costs and reanalysis rates, creating ultra-fast screening methods, and dramatically shortening quantitative run-times.
Download the free white paper from: http://www.ionsigtech.com/notall.
Ion Signature software provides precise, rapid compound identification and quantification, extracting each compound's characteristic signature, untangling it from the surrounding sample matrix, and delivering a one-of-a-kind ion “fingerprint.” For contract laboratories, the software eliminates costly re-analysis and cuts data review time by 75%. For R&D and corporate labs, it efficiently and accurately delivers the highest-quality data, lowest method-detection limits, highest repeatability, and fastest time to analysis. For more information, visit http://www.ionsigtech.com or call 1-401-767-4360.
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