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Mass Spectrometry

Applications include

Biotechnology - the analysis of proteins, peptides, oligonucleotides, sequencing
Pharmaceutical - drug discovery, combinatorial chemistry, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism
Clinical - neonatal screening, haemoglobin analysis, drug testing
Environmental - PAHs, PCBs, water quality, food contamination
Geological - oil composition

Facilities include

MALDI-TOF (TofSpec) used for MW measurements, reaction monitoring, proteomics
ESI-Q (Platform II) used for MW measurements, HPLC-MS, reaction monitoring, protein structural studies
ESI/NS-Q-TOF (Q-Tof) used for MW measurements, reaction monitoring, protein structural studies, peptide sequencing, nucleotide sequencing, macromolecular structure determination due to extended m/z range
HPLC-MS, CZE-MS