Industrialize Your Quantitative Proteomics with the OneOmics Project by Christie Hunter | 0 CommentsFor many labs, the days are long gone when it was acceptable to run only a few samples a week for your quantitative proteomics projects. The pressure for faster turn-around times, to support larger cohort studies, to sustain multiple research directions, and to transition from a purely unbiased discovery mode to verifying something truly unique and interesting, all demand a faster pace. Many labs are now being asked to analyze a hundred samples a week or more. In part 1 of this blog series, we saw how moving to a microflow SWATH workflow can dramatically increase your throughput with little compromise on overall results. In this part, we’ll address what to do with all of this data because it’s just no good if all we’ve done is move the bottleneck downstream.
Industrialize Your Quantitative Proteomics with Microflow Analysis by Christie Hunter | 0 CommentsMany groups around the world are now using SWATH Acquisition on TripleTOF Systems for both quantitative proteomics experiments and biomarker research. The SWATH acquisition technique on a TripleTOF® 6600 system provides state-of-the-art quantitative proteomics analysis with unrivaled proteome coverage. With this workflow, researchers can routinely quantify 1000s of proteins per run, reproducibly, and with high data completeness – all with the quantitative accuracy approaching that of a gold standard MRM approach.
Bottom-Up Proteomics: A Discussion with Christie Hunter by Christie Hunter | 0 CommentsBiocompare recently featured an article on Bottom-Up Proteomics. I had a chance to follow up with Christie Hunter and expand on some of the questions featured in the article:
Taking on Precision Medicine with Industrialized Proteomics by Neil Walsh | 0 CommentsWhat if we could deliver the right treatment at the right time, to the right person to better, more effectively treat complex disease? This is the promise of precision medicine, to be able to approach complex disease treatment and prevention by taking into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.
A rising star in food allergen research: proteomics of shellfish allergen by SCIEX Community | Blogs, Food / Beverage, Life Science Research, ProteomicsIt’s important to know what you’re eating, especially if you suffer from a food allergy. About 220 million people worldwide live with a food allergy.1 These numbers, along with the complexity and severity of conditions, continue to rise. In America, there are about 32 million food allergy sufferers—5.6 million of those are children under the age of 18.2.2 That’s 1 out of every 13 children, or about 2 in every classroom. From a financial perspective, the cost of food allergy childcare for US families is up to $25 billion
A Smart Way to Profit from the Wealth of Biobanks by SCIEX Community | Blogs, Life Science Research, Proteomics Microflow LC with SWATH® Acquisition for Digitizing Biobanks What if you could access thousands of high-quality samples for your research? What if these samples were well-annotated biological specimens? And what if they were carefully segmented into just the...
“Bottoms Up” Proteomics by Tom Knapman | Blogs, Life Science Research, Proteomics Ahhhh beer. It's a ubiquitous drink found in over 90% of all countries around the world. Since the dawn of civilization, man has celebrated with beer where it can make even the most introverted person suddenly dance a little jig or belt out a top 40 song. But other...
Metabolomics Studies Benefit Biomedical Research by SCIEX Community | Blogs, Life Science Research, MetabolomicsProfessor Dr. Thomas Hankemeier, Head of the Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, LACDRLACDR is a center of excellence for multidisciplinary research into drug discovery and development, with a strong focus on metabolomics. As part of its research...
Multi-Laboratory Study Highlights the Quantitative Reproducibility of SWATH Acquisition (Nature Communications Paper) by Christie Hunter | Blogs, Life Science Research, ProteomicsReproducibility is one of the key tenets of the scientific method. But in a recent survey published in Nature, more than 70% of researchers were not able to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half could not reproduce their own experiments1. While the reasons for this are many, at least some of them stem from issues inherent in data collection.
SCIEX Lands HUPO Science and Technology Award by Tom Knapman | Blogs, Life Science Research, ProteomicsWe are pleased to congratulate its research scientists Stephen Tate and Ron Bonner (retired) for being awarded this year’s Science and Technology award at HUPO 2017 in Dublin Ireland. The Science and Technology Award at HUPO recognizes an individual or team who were key in the commercialization of a technology, product, or procedure that advances proteomics research
Take on New Analytical Challenges with the TripleTOF 6600 Accurate Mass System by SCIEX Community | Blogs, TechnologyStay ahead of the curve by using the most advanced and versatile high-resolution accurate mass technology. The TripleTOF® 6600 accurate mass QTOF system can help you to analyze your samples faster, without compromising between speed, resolution, and sensitivity. Explore the technological advances that give this system the performance edge.
Happy Birthday to SWATH Acquisition! 5 Years of Innovation by Christie Hunter | Blogs, Life Science Research, ProteomicsWith its introduction at the HUPO World Congress in 2010 in Sydney Australia by Ruedi Aebersold, SWATH® Acquisition instantly intrigued scientists around the world. Here was a new technique with the potential to revolutionize the way proteomics studies were performed! Based on a data independent acquisition strategy using a SCIEX TripleTOF® 5600 system, SWATH was able to consistently identify and quantify at least as many peptides and proteins as other far more mature proteomics strategies on the market, but with quantitative accuracy and reproducibility rivaling gold standard MRM experiments! This solution was made broadly available to researchers with a full launch of SWATH Acquisition in the Analyst® TF 1.6 Software on the TripleTOF 5600+ System at ASMS 2012 in Vancouver (A Mine of Quantitative Proteomic Information. Prof Dr. Ruedi Aebersold, Head of the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich).
5 Tips for Calibrating a QTOF Mass Spectrometer by SCIEX Community | Blogs, Life Science Research, Proteomics, TechnologyDo you have questions about your mass spec? How about a workflow? Our community members are involved in active discussions and receive expert answers from customers like you, SCIEX scientists, and support specialists every week. One recent topic concerned the automatic calibration on TripleTOF® systems as answered by Dr. Christie Hunter whose focus is developing and testing innovative MS workflows for omics research through working collaboratively with the instrument, chemistry, and software research groups.
A Mine of Quantitative Proteomic Information by SCIEX Community | Blogs, Life Science Research, ProteomicsThe Aebersold group at ETH Zurich focuses on proteomics research, including the development of techniques to study the proteome as an integrated entity. In collaboration with SCIEX, the group established SWATH® Acquisition mass spectrometry, a data-independent acquisition (DIA) method capable of fragmenting multiple peptide species concurrently. The resulting comprehensive data set can be retrospectively re-mined, enabling maximum benefit to be derived from any study.