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Orbitrap Astral Zoom: A next-generation hybrid Orbitrap–Astral mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific designed for high throughput and enhanced sensitivity proteomics workflows. [Back to top]

• Scan rate: Up to 270 Hz
• Mass range: 40–3000
• Resolution: Up to 480,000
• Sensitivity:
  • Pre-accumulation increases the ion population by up to 50% per scan.
  • Low-input mode increases single-ion detection probability by 10% and increases single-ion peak area by 73%.

Highlights:

• Faster throughput, deeper coverage, and higher sensitivity
• Fast ion filter for efficient ion pre-selection prior to analysis
• Bent trap enabling parallelized ion pre-accumulation to increase ion throughput
• High-speed quadrupole for rapid and precise precursor isolation switching
• Faster stepped-collision energy for richer Astral fragmentation spectra
• Enhanced dynamic range mode expands the full-scan dynamic range of the Orbitrap analyzer

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Waters Xevo TQ Absolute XR: A high-performance benchtop tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer designed for extreme robustness and high-throughput quantitative analysis for small molecules. [Back to top] 

• Mass range: 2 to 2048 m/z
• Scan speed: Up to 20,000 Da/s
• Acquisition rates: Maximum of 500 MRM data points per second
• Polarity switching: 15 ms switching time between positive and negative ion modes
• Detector: Low-noise, long-life XDR photomultiplier detector

Highlight: Great sensitivity for challenging negative ionizing compounds, making it a benchmark for trace-level detection of analytes as well as a very robust ion transfer optics allowing >>12,000 sample injections for ion quantitation without having to break vacuum to clean front-end optics.

Orbitrap Exploris 480 MS with Thermo Vanquish Neo UPLC: A high-resolution quadrupole-orbitrap hybrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific. [Back to top]

• Scan rate: Up to 40 Hz at resolution setting 7500 at m/z 200
• Multiplexity: Up to 20 precursors/scan
• Resolution: Up to 480,000 at m/z 200
• Mass accuracy: <3 ppm RMS drift over 24 hours using external calibration; and <1 ppm RMS drift over 24 hours using internal calibration
• Sensitivity: Dynamic range >5000 within a single Orbitrap mass analyzer spectrum
  • MS/MS: 50 fg reserpine on column S/N 100:1
  • SIM: 50 fg reserpine on column S/N 150:1

Other features:

• Higher energy collisional dissociation (HCD)
• EASY-IC™ (internal calibration) source
• Quadrupole mass filter
• Ion routing multipole (IRM) trapping focuses and routes ions more effectively
• Orbitrap mass analyzer
• Broader range of experiments with multiple scan modes: data-dependent acquisition (DDA), data-independent acquisition (DIA), spectral multiplexing (MSX), TopN and new TopSpeed (TopS), BoxCar DIA and DDA experiments, tSIM, tSIM MSX, ddMS/MS, targeted MS/MS

UPLC ESI Q-Exactive HF-X MS system for global proteome profiling and quantitation: A high-resolution quadrupole-orbitrap hybrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific. [Back to top]

• Can reach scan speeds up to 40 Hz at a resolution of 240,000 at m/z 200.
• Equipped with a high-capacity transfer tube, electrodynamic ion funnel, and high-performance quadrupole for improved sensitivity and selection.
• Primarily designated for large-scale, bottom-up proteomic analyses such as data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and data-independent acquisition (DIA) in our facility.
• Can also be used for top-down proteomics (mass range 50-6000 m/z) as well as identification and quantitation of post-translational modifications. 

Nano-UPLC ESI Orbitrap Fusion MS systems for global and targeted proteome profiling and quantitation: A high-resolution Orbitrap Tribrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific. [Back to top]

• Dual-pressure linear ion trap for CID and ETD fragmentation.
• Progressively spaced stacked-ring S-lens for efficient tight ion beam focusing.
• Active ion beam guide for improved ion transfer.
• Higher-energy collisional dissociation cell for storage and fragmentation.
• Can reach scan speeds up to ~18 Hz, obtain resolution up to 450,000 at m/z 200, provide dynamic range or >5000 within a single scan, and an upper m/z limit of 6000 in the Orbitrap.
• Primarily designated for large-scale, bottom-up proteomic analyses, such as:
  • Data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and data-independent acquisition (DIA)
  • Label-free quantitation (LFQ)
  • Parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)
  • Labeled (tandem mass tag [TMT]) proteomics approaches
• Can also be used for top-down proteomics as well as identification and quantitation of post-translational modifications. 

Nano-UPLC ESI Q-Exactive Plus MS systems for global proteome profiling and quantitation: A high-resolution quadrupole-orbitrap Hybrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific. [Back to top]

• Can reach scan speeds up to 20 Hz at a resolution of 240,000 at m/z 400.
• High-capacity transfer tube, electrodynamic ion funnel, and high-performance quadrupole for improved sensitivity and selection.
• Primarily designated for bottom-up proteomic analyses such as data-dependent acquisition (DDA) to identify proteins and protein posttranslational modification from gel bands, immunoprecipitates, cell lysate, etc.
• Can also be used for quantitative proteomics such as SILAC and LFQ workflows. 

UPLC 4000 QTRAP MS system for targeted small molecule quantitation: This triple quadrupole mass spectrometer is primarily used for our small-molecule targeted quantitation workflow. [Back to top]

• Though very dependent on the analyte of interest and its ionization efficiency, this multiple reaction monitoring-based system has been utilized to detect compounds/ion with concentration range >5ng/mL.
• System is coupled to an Agilent 1200 HPLC for online separation prior to the MS detection.

Waters H-Class UPLC for offline fractionation of proteomic and small molecule samples: An ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UPLC) system for offline peptides, proteins, and small molecule separation. [Back to top]

• Two separate temperature-controlled column compartments with capacity for two columns hooked up separately or serially.
• Plate or tube fraction collector for downstream analyses of the fractionated samples.
• Photodiode array (UV) detector connected for up to 4 UV channels recording/detection.
• Primarily used for TMT multiplex workflow, where offline high pH 1st-dimensional reverse phase separation and subsequent fraction collection is implemented to enhance proteome depth of coverage.
• Also utilized by the core/users for small-molecule separation to determine active components in a reaction mixture.
  
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