Tracefinder 1.1 Software for LC-MS Quantitation

Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched Tracefinder 1.1 for clinical research, forensic toxicology, food safety and environmental testing labs performing routine, high-throughput quantitation by LC-MS. The software, which retains all the capabilities of its predecessor, has been expanded to include complete integration with the Thermo Scientific Transcend system. It is also compatible with all Thermo Scientific quantitative mass spectrometry platforms, including the Exactive and LTQ systems.

The Tracefinder software is designed to make routine LC-MS quantitation and targeted analysis simple, fast and productive. It offers a four-step, workflow-driven method setup and fully automated data acquisition, data processing and reporting. The software includes a choice of preconfigured methods and more than 50 report templates, as well as compound data stores for selected reaction monitoring (SRM) experiments in environmental testing, food safety residue analysis, clinical research and forensic toxicology applications.

Data review is said to be easy, with the ability to specify and report multiple flags. To protect the integrity of analytical data, the software includes a rights-based secure user login system. The Transcend system combines automated online sample preparation and multiplexing to increase throughput without affecting data quality or sensitivity. Transcend's multiplexing technology is said to bring the productivity of up to four separate, parallel LC systems to a single mass spectrometer, enabling clinical research, forensic toxicology, food testing and environmental laboratories to achieve a fourfold increase in sample throughput. Thermo Scientific's Turboflow technology automates sample preparation and can reduce the time spent on this task by up to 95 per cent, the company said.

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