New instrumentation
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At the same time as we move into new premises, we’ll be installing two further mass spectrometers, to expand our already substantial fleet. These are both Bruker instruments, one is a high speed ion trap with ETD for pos-translational work, the other is an Ultraflex eXtreme (a name that might just refer to its footprint!).
Manufacturer’s informaton below...
amaZon ETD and amaZon X - Redefining Ion Trap Applications
The new Generation of Ultra-Sensitive Ion Traps opens up new performance levels for any kind of analytical requirements
Delivering 10x improved MS/MS sensitivity over current platforms, novel technology for accelerated data acquisition and Zero Delay AlternatingTM at 20Hz MS acquisition rate, highly enhanced mass resolution, and the latest edition of ETD/PTR technology, this ion trap reaches unrivalled data quality and extreme flexibility for a broad variety of applications.
amaZon builds upon Bruker’s vast experience in ion trap technologies, and is designed specifically to enhance capabilities in research areas such as proteomics, metabolomics, compound screening and identification, and detailed chemical analysis.
ultrafleXtreme
The ultrafleXtreme incorporates next-generation MALDI-TOF and TOF/TOF technology:
• The innovative smartbeam-II™ laser enables ultra-high data acquisition speed in both MS and MS/MS at full systems performance. The well-established proprietary smartbeam laser provides unprecedented analytical and matrix flexibility in workflows from protein tissue imaging, intact proteins analysis, biologics or oligo QC, to LC-MALDI proteomics - all fully enabled at 1-1000 Hz repetition rates.
• Bruker’s patented smartbeam technology is already widely accepted as the most viable MALDI imaging laser technology. The ultrafleXtreme now enables laser focus diameters down to 10 µm for high spatial resolution imaging without pixel overlap. Importantly, outstanding spectral quality and signal intensity are maintained at even the smallest laser beam diameters.
• Broadband mass resolving power up to 40,000 enables precision proteomics via Bruker’s unique PAN™ technology for highest mass resolution across a very broad mass range, not just at a selected optimum.
• The novel FlashDetector™ combined with a new 4 GHz digitizer and latest advances in electronics provide unmatched mass resolving power up to 40,000 and 1 ppm mass accuracy for highest confidence.
• The novel and unique laser-irradiation self-cleaning MALDI Perpetual™ Ion Source ensures robust, long-term highest-performance operation. Very long MALDI laser lifetime in combination with automated source cleaning in just minutes leads to high uptime and low maintenance costs.
• Latest TOF/TOF technology: The high efficiency and sensitivity of the LID-LIFT process delivers MS/MS spectra with nominal mass resolution for peptides. Typically, full MS/MS data sets can be acquired from low fmol levels within seconds. The Bruker bioinformatic software is perfectly adapted to analyze and visualize the match between the raw spectra and annotated peptide and protein structures
Manufacturer’s informaton below...
amaZon ETD and amaZon X - Redefining Ion Trap Applications
The new Generation of Ultra-Sensitive Ion Traps opens up new performance levels for any kind of analytical requirements
Delivering 10x improved MS/MS sensitivity over current platforms, novel technology for accelerated data acquisition and Zero Delay AlternatingTM at 20Hz MS acquisition rate, highly enhanced mass resolution, and the latest edition of ETD/PTR technology, this ion trap reaches unrivalled data quality and extreme flexibility for a broad variety of applications.
amaZon builds upon Bruker’s vast experience in ion trap technologies, and is designed specifically to enhance capabilities in research areas such as proteomics, metabolomics, compound screening and identification, and detailed chemical analysis.
ultrafleXtreme
The ultrafleXtreme incorporates next-generation MALDI-TOF and TOF/TOF technology:• The innovative smartbeam-II™ laser enables ultra-high data acquisition speed in both MS and MS/MS at full systems performance. The well-established proprietary smartbeam laser provides unprecedented analytical and matrix flexibility in workflows from protein tissue imaging, intact proteins analysis, biologics or oligo QC, to LC-MALDI proteomics - all fully enabled at 1-1000 Hz repetition rates.
• Bruker’s patented smartbeam technology is already widely accepted as the most viable MALDI imaging laser technology. The ultrafleXtreme now enables laser focus diameters down to 10 µm for high spatial resolution imaging without pixel overlap. Importantly, outstanding spectral quality and signal intensity are maintained at even the smallest laser beam diameters.
• Broadband mass resolving power up to 40,000 enables precision proteomics via Bruker’s unique PAN™ technology for highest mass resolution across a very broad mass range, not just at a selected optimum.
• The novel FlashDetector™ combined with a new 4 GHz digitizer and latest advances in electronics provide unmatched mass resolving power up to 40,000 and 1 ppm mass accuracy for highest confidence.
• The novel and unique laser-irradiation self-cleaning MALDI Perpetual™ Ion Source ensures robust, long-term highest-performance operation. Very long MALDI laser lifetime in combination with automated source cleaning in just minutes leads to high uptime and low maintenance costs.
• Latest TOF/TOF technology: The high efficiency and sensitivity of the LID-LIFT process delivers MS/MS spectra with nominal mass resolution for peptides. Typically, full MS/MS data sets can be acquired from low fmol levels within seconds. The Bruker bioinformatic software is perfectly adapted to analyze and visualize the match between the raw spectra and annotated peptide and protein structures