Principles And Practices Of Biological Mass Spectrometry

This book provides professionals in the biological sciences with a solid basis in the fundamentals of contemporary mass spectrometry so that they can confidently choose and apply the best instrumentation and experimental approaches for their needs. The only single-volume guide of its kind, the book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of the latest instrumentation (including ionization methods, mass analyzers, detectors, tandem MS, and hyphenated techniques), techniques used in the analysis of important classes of biological materials such as peptides, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and oligonucleotides, and applications to real-world problems.