Completely revised and updated, this text provides an easy-to-read guide to the concept of mass spectrometry and demonstrates its potential and limitations.

This book offers a balanced mixture of practice-oriented information and theoretical background as well as numerous references, clear illustrations, and useful data tables.

This is an in-depth guide to the theory and practice of analyzing raw mass spectrometry (MS) data in proteomics. The volume outlines available bioinformatics programs, algorithms, and databases available for MS data analysis.

This text presents the information needed to design a successful quantitative analysis using mass spectrometric techniques currently available and widely employed.

That does not mean to say that an understanding of ion behaviour is not important - it is, but that understanding is still being developed and this book is designed for those wishing to use mass spectrometry now.

The book will be of great use to organic and analytical chemists. Chemists from other branch of chemistry, along with practitioners of related fields such as chemical engineering will also benefit from the text.

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition, as in previous editions, emphasizes the point that the most important part of learning how to interpret unknown mass spectra is to practice interpreting mass spectra.

A definitive reference, completely updated Published in 1989, the First Edition of this book, originally entitled Quadrupole Storage Mass Spectrometry, quickly became the definitive reference in analytical laboratories worldwide.

This book describes everything readers need to know about mass spectrometry from the instrumentation to the theory and applications.