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What is Mass Spectrometry

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Healthcare
In the field of proteomics, mass spectrometry is a technique to analyze, identify and characterize proteins. In particular, it measures the mass-to-charge ratio.
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High-Throughput Data Analysis of Proteomic Mass Spectra on the SwissBioGrid
Andreas Quandt (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland), Sergio Maffioletti (University of Lugano, Switzerland), Cesare Pautasso (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland), Heinz Stockinger (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland), and Frederique Lisacek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-374-6.ch012
Abstract
Proteomics is currently one of the most promising fields in bioinformatics as it provides important insights into the protein function of organisms. Mass spectrometry is one of the techniques to study the proteome, and several software tools exist for this purpose. The authors provide an extendable software platform called swissPIT that combines different existing tools and exploits Grid infrastructures to speed up the data analysis process for the proteomics pipeline.
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Chapter 16
Role of Biotechnology in Bioremediation
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that helps identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a sample by measuring the mass-to-charge ratio and abundance of gas-phase ions.
Published in Chapter: Role of Biotechnology in Bioremediation; From: Handbook of Research on Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management through Bioremediation
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Chapter 196
Prototype Based Classification in Bioinformatics
An analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. In clinical proteomics mass spectrometry can be applied to extract fingerprints of samples (like blood, urine, bacterial extracts) whereby semi-quantitative intensity differences between sample cohorts may indicate biomarker candidates
Published in Chapter: Prototype Based Classification in Bioinformatics; From: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 122
Best Practices of Feature Selection in Multi-Omics Data
It is an analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions.
Published in Chapter: Best Practices of Feature Selection in Multi-Omics Data; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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