Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
May 21, 2025
In nontargeted spatial metabolomics, accurate annotation is crucial for understanding metabolites' biological roles and spatial patterns. MS mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) coverage is often incomplete or nonexistent, resulting in many unknown featur...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
May 20, 2025
Hydroxyl radical protein footprinting (HRPF) coupled with mass spectrometry yields information about residue solvent exposure and protein topology. However, data from these experiments are sparse and require computational interpretation to generate u...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
May 9, 2025
Early recognition of septic shock is crucial for improving clinical management and patient outcomes, especially in the emergency department (ED). This study conducted serum metabolomic profiling on ED patients diagnosed with septic shock (n = 32) and...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Dec 19, 2024
The spatial distribution of organics in geological samples can be used to determine when and how these organics were incorporated into the host rock. Mass spectrometry (MS) imaging can rapidly collect a large amount of data, but ions produced are mix...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Dec 7, 2024
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) techniques enable the generation of molecular maps from complex and heterogeneous matrices. A burger patty, whether plant-based or meat-based, represents one such complex matrix where studying the spatial distribution ...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Nov 19, 2024
Existing analytical techniques are being improved or applied in new ways to profile the tissue microenvironment (TME) to better understand the role of cells in disease research. Fully understanding the complex interactions between cells of many diffe...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Oct 12, 2024
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) data interpretation for organic materials is complicated because of various fragment ions produced from each molecule and the overlapping of certain mass peaks from different molecules. Fragme...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Sep 9, 2024
Mass spectrometry (MS) is inherently an information-rich technique. In this era of big data, label-free MS quantification for nontargeted studies has gained increasing popularity, especially for complex systems. One of the cornerstones of successful ...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Aug 5, 2024
Accurate identification of bacterial strains in clinical samples is essential to provide an appropriate antibiotherapy to the patient and reduce the prescription of broad-spectrum antimicrobials, leading to antibiotic resistance. In this study, we ut...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Jul 29, 2024
In computational proteomics, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a vital tool for enhancing data analysis. Despite significant advancements, the diversity of ML model architectures and the complexity of proteomics data present substantial challenges...