[Meta] proposal — a flair for LC-MS posts
proposal — a flair for LC-MS posts. Short post, long comment section, probably. QYB sent me the column, the gradient and the theoretical mass without being asked. That is a short list and they are on it. Started reporting my own integrations with the baseline choice stated. Arguments in my threads dropped by about…
Area percent is the integrated area of your peak over the total integrated area at one wavelength on one gradient. Change any of those and the number changes without the sample changing.
axis labels or the trace is decoration
a shoulder is not an impurity until you can resolve it
214nm sees the peptide bond, 280nm sees the aromatics
Disagree. Inter-lab spread of a point or two on this assay is ordinary and calling it a discrepancy misleads people.
UV response is not uniform across species. At 214nm you are looking at the peptide bond, which is why it is the working wavelength for this class; at 280nm you only see tryptophan, tyrosine and phenylalanine.
Same method at both labs, or two different gradients?