AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX MATRICES USING MASS SPECTROMETER

摘要

Improved systems, apparatus, methods, and programming useful for the automatedanalysis of complex compounds using mass spectrometers. Systems, apparatus,methods, and programming according to the invention provide for the automaticdetermination by a controller (54) of a mass spectrometer (14, 214) of ananalysis operation to be implemented using the mass spectrometer, the analysisoperation adapted specifically for analysis of one or more substances basedcontained within a compound based on identification of the compound and/orsubstances provided by a user of the spectrometer, and a database (66) orother library of information concerning suitable processes or process stepsfor analyzing substances.