The IPB has once again been recognized for its exemplary actions in terms of equal opportunity-oriented personnel and organizational policies and has received the TOTAL E-QUALITY certification for the…
The Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) has been organised by students from the two Leibniz institutes, IPK and IPB, every year for the last 20 years. In this interview, Christina Wäsch (IPK) and…
Tautenhahn, R.; Böttcher, C.; Neumann, S.;Annotation of LC/ESI-MS Mass SignalsLecture Notes in Computer Science4414371-380(2007)ISBN:978-3-540-71233-6DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71233-6_29
Mass spectrometry is the work-horse technology of the emerging field of metabolomics. The identification of mass signals remains the largest bottleneck for a non-targeted approach: due to the analytical method, each metabolite in a complex mixture will give rise to a number of mass signals. In contrast to GC/MS measurements, for soft ionisation methods such as ESI-MS there are no extensive libraries of reference spectra or established deconvolution methods. We present a set of annotation methods which aim to group together mass signals measured from a single metabolite, based on rules for mass differences and peak shape comparison.Availability: The software and documentation is available as an R package on http://msbi.ipb-halle.de/