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As the complexity and variety of medical devices have increased, so has the demand for advanced and specialized testing to safeguard patients. Key areas of concern include contaminant toxicity and drug efficacy. E&L studies require careful design and depend on the class of the device, use of the device, and contact time. E&L analysis is...

Quantitative analysis addresses scientific challenges across various industries such as food, environment, pharmaceutical, and more. It is crucial to ensure the quality of a product by answering “How much?” This question is answered using essential quantitation xC/UV/MS workflows. MS Workbook Suite software offers a fully integrated quantitative workflow where all xC/UV/MS data can be processed and...

Sarah’s analytical team at Genentech support medicinal chemists in Discovery and have deployed ACD/Labs technology to manage their LC/MS/MS, 1D NMR, and 2D NMR data. Learn about their analytical data management system and how they’re leveraging data to speed up structure elucidation and verification workflows, reduce experimentation; and make the data available to downstream colleagues...

This release expands structure characterization functionality for scientists, improves analytical data management and assembly across analytical techniques and data formats, and further supports proliferation of data from the Spectrus platform to third party data science applications. Toronto, CANADA (September 12, 2023)—ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, today announced...

Mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool that enables scientists to identify and quantify molecules with remarkable precision. At the heart of MS lies the ionization process. Understanding the different ionization methods in mass spectrometry enables selection of the most appropriate technique to accurately analyze your data.

Extractable and Leachable (E&L) testing requires scientists to gather, analyze, and curate immense amounts of analytical data. Facing the challenge of identifying hundreds of potential unknowns with no commercial databases to search from is no small feat. Using the structure verification and knowledge management capabilities in MS Structure ID Suite, Medtronic has created a data-handling...

How ACD/Labs Simplifies GC/MS & LC/UV/MS Project Management Modern mass spectrometrists are expected to detect and identify components with greater efficiency, despite increasing sample complexity and shrinking analytical group sizes. Mass spectrometrists require advanced informatics solutions that offer comprehensive coverage of MS analysis, interpretation, and reporting functions. Learn how ACD/Labs’ software strategies benefit mass spectrometrists...

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a valuable tool that can give you vast amounts of MS data to help you identify and quantify components. MS has been used to discover, determine, and quantify sample compounds in the proteomics, metabolomics, imaging, and glycomics applications across the food, pharmaceutical, and environmental industries. Combining MS with appropriate software and computer technology allows the possibility for more extensive applications. But first, we must understand the basics.