Kh. Jarman et al., Extracting and visualizing matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectral fingerprints, RAP C MASS, 13(15), 1999, pp. 1586-1594
We have developed a method for constructing and extracting matrix-assisted
laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) fingerprints, This method is fully auto
mated and statistically based, allowing a large number of spectra to be ana
lyzed at a time in an objective manner. This method can be used to extract
the fingerprint of a particular analyte from a spectrum containing multiple
analytes, Therefore, this method lends itself well to real-world applicati
ons where samples to be analyzed are likely to be impure, We illustrate thi
s method on experimental results from a series of studies of E. coli and B.
atrophaeus MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS) fingerprints. Co
pyright (C) 1999 John Whey & Sons, Ltd.