In this study, quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) methodology employed for modeling of the retention times of 16 banned pesticides in nano-liquid chromatography (nano-LC) column. Genetic algorithm-multiple linear regression (GA-MLR) method employed for developing global and consensus QSRR models. The best global GA-MLR model was established by adjusting GA parameters. Three de...

A mass spectrometry (MS) method is described here that can reproducibly identify hundreds of peptides across multiple experiments. The method uses intelligent data acquisition to precisely target peptides while simultaneously identifying thousands of other, nontargeted peptides in a single nano-LC-MS/MS experiment. We introduce an online peptide elution order alignment algorithm that targets pe...

N-Acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs) are produced by Gram-negative bacteria as communication signals and are frequently studied as mediators of the "quorum sensing" response of bacterial communities. Several reports have recently been published on the identification of AHLs from different species and attempts have been made to study their role in natural habitats, for example the surface of pl...

Label-free MS-based quantification of peptides from LC-MS data is a valuable complement to MS-based quantification technologies such as SILAC, ICPL, or gel based quantification. However, statistically valid labelfree quantification of peptides and proteins from a digest of a proteomics sample in up to hundreds of LC-MS experiments is a challenge, as it requires excellent sensitivity, mass accur...

Liquid chromatography combined with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is an important tool in proteomics for identifying the peptides in a sample. Liquid chromatography temporally separates the peptides and tandem mass spectrometry analyzes the peptides, that elute one after another, by measuring their mass-to-charge ratios and the mass-to-charge ratios of their prefix and suffix fragments. D...

The goal of proteomics is to understand the individual proteins and their roles in larger biological systems. The study of the human proteome is a crucial component in fields such as drug development and biomarker discovery. Proteomics employs the liquid-chromatography mass-spectrometry technique to identify and quantify the proteins of a complex biological sample. The primary obstacle in compa...

We report the development of a robust interface for off-line coupling of nano liquid chromatography (LC) to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) and its application to the analysis of proteolytic digests of proteins, both isolated and in mixtures. The interface makes use of prestructured MALDI sample supports to concentrate the effluent to a small sample plat...