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thundara  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a picture of your workspace

LC-MS: The mass spectrometer measures the mass-to-charge ratios of its inputs, picks the highly abundant ions, isolates and smashes those ions, and collects another mass-to-charge measurement of the fragments of those ions. It lets you "sequence" protein fragments and tell relative abundances, though the process is nothing like sequencing DNA.