Hamish Stewart
@hamishs.bsky.social
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Analyzer evangelist and mass spectrometry enjoyer. Read about the Astral analyzer: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02856
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👀 A simple optimization giving substantial benefits. A little like widening an over-tight quadrupole window to help transmission.
Is a lager shandy on the list.
Depends on timescale and applications I guess. MS3 is currently limited to the tribrid line, where there have been big improvements recently with parallel ion accumulation for MS3, and the new Stellar quad-ion trap where it can run 40Hz MS3.

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🎉 BayBioMS turns 10! 🎉

2025 marks our 10th anniversary of Mapping Molecular Mountains.

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We had to rewrite AGC control completely and lost some of the legacy functionality.

The eDR/multiplexed SIM implementation, while ultimately relatively simple, took quite a lot of effort to implement.
One learns something every day
That's interesting, I would've assumed all Exploris instruments (aside MX) would have the same rules for multiplexed SIM.

Actually surprising older "helpful" restrictions didn't stick across generations.
Ah! This one's definitely aimed at Orbitrap.

For Astral analyser itself there's some debate whether multiplexing will be useful. Maybe multiple scans with different mass ranges, but usually scan averaging alone should be preferable.

Perhaps ideally the combination of Astral and OT full MS scans...
I'm sorry, I don't follow. Which patent do you mean here?
This paper would have been largely complete by the time the MAP-MS preprint came out, barely two months ago. A very easy oversight.

I think I'm the only one with input into both projects, and this didn't even occur to me on my reviewed.

The common root of the Boxcar method is cited however.
It was simply that with high enough resolution mobility separation then one may gain sufficient selectivity in DIA without quadrupole isolation.

It's not a new concept, but mobility separators in the past weren't suitable (though there's a pasef derivative with very wide quad windows)
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Orbitrap Astral Team receive the RSC 2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: Robert Boyle Prize.

Interesting information about what each role does at TFS.

A good read:
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Very keen on the promise of showing what different instrument classes really mean by their intensity classification.