Triple Quadrupole MALDI Mass Spec

The FlashQuant mass spectrometry platform combines triple quadrupole mass spec with MALDI technology to provide fast drug compound screening. The platform is expected to enable scientists to generate data in a fraction of the time currently required. MALDI converts samples into charged ions for analysis by mass spectrometry, and offers both high capacity and high throughput. Triple-quadrupole mass specs are used to measure minute quantities of compounds, and provide the standard method used for the analysis of small molecules such as drug compounds and their metabolites. The system interface enables efficient transmission of ions with the robustness to run hundreds of thousands of samples while providing the level of sensitivity required for ADME applications. Because MALDI sample preparation can be automated and decoupled from the mass spectrometry step and samples are read in parallel in a plate format, the platform allows scientists to take full advantage of the speed of mass spectrometry.