I couldn't possibly describe my jealousy fully that I'm not one of the 1,800 (!!) delegates at HUPO in Dresden which started yesterday. I can, however, continue to monitor the social networking things and the preprint servers to get a feel for what the big developments are.
One of these dropped yesterday -
- and has already drawn some headlines like this one!
It's really no secret right now that only a tiny fraction of the peptides ionized are making it to the detector. The whole reason the TIMSTOFs are so good is that they are parallelizing their accumulation so that more of the ions being generated are being detected. There are other reasons, but the magic of a TIMSTOF is absolutely the front end stuff. Turn it off and...it's a TOF.
What MOBILion proposes is utilizing a dramatically higher percentage of the generated ions through their SLIM technology with parallel accumulation. Super cool stuff that I'm confident everyone will hear more about soon.
According to blog rules I totally made up but I've stuck to for years and are rambled about over there somewhere --> I am a paid consultant for MOBILion, although no one has ever paid me for writing a post on this blog.
I'm not sure what more I can share yet, but I don't think anyone would be mad if I typed something like - if you're thinking this is a singular prototype system spread across a room with wires and oscilloscopes everywhere - you'd be wrong on 2 counts.
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