The isotopic distribution conundrum

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-109

  Valkenborg, Dirk ^a,b,c   Mertens, Inge ^a   Lemière, Filip ^d   Witters, Erwin ^a,d   Burzykowski, Tomasz ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bioinformatics for biomolecular mass spectrometry; interpretation of mass spectra; isotopic distribution calculation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MASS; ATOMIC COMPOSITIONS; BIO-MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FT-ICR MS; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRA; INTERPRETATION OF MASS SPECTRA; ISOTOPE PATTERN; ISOTOPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; LARGE BIOMOLECULES; MASS SPECTRA; MEMORY USAGE; MULTINOMIALS; PASCAL'S TRIANGLE; POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; STEPWISE PROCEDURE;

ALGORITHMS; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMOLECULES; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CHLORINE; CONVOLUTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUMBER THEORY;

ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPE; PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOTOPES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PEPTIDES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84155165031     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: 10982787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.20339     Document Type: Review

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