High-throughput screening mass spectrometry applications

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For those readers who are not yet familiar with mass spectrometry, the introduction provides an explanation of the basics of mass spectrometry and its instrumentation as well as practical aspects and applications in bioanalysis. Next, a block of three chapters shows different affinity selection procedures suitable to identify hits from combinatorial compound libraries. This subject, being metaphorically speaking a search for a needle in a haystack, is of outstanding relevance for big pharma . The techniques described here offer real high throughput capabilities and are implemented already in the routine industrial screening... 

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