Several firms covered by BioCommerce Week unveiled new instruments and related products this week at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in San Antonio. The table below provides a synopsis of the product introductions. In addition to product launches, a couple of alliances were announced: Bruker inked a co-marketing pact with German firm Serva Electrophoresis (see brief), and Invitrogen and ABI teamed up on protein and peptide labeling technologies (see feature article).
| Company | Product |
| Applied Biosystems (with partner MDS Sciex) |
MarkerView software package for metabolomics and biomarker profiling analysis. The software is compatible with all Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex mass spectrometers, including both MALDI and ESI instruments. |
| Bruker Daltonics | ClinProt Large-Protein Beads for biomarker analysis of large proteins, targeted glyco-protein analysis, and antigen-specific enrichment of selected biomarker molecules. Supported by Bruker's MALDI-TOF mass spectrometers and newly released ClinPro Tools 2.0 bioinformatics package. |
| Bruker Daltonics | Proteineer-LC 1.1 LC-MS/MS-based quantitative proteomics instrument, and the new ProteinScape 1.3 bioinformatics software. The Proteineer software suite extends the existing workflow support from 2D gel to LC-MS/MS-based protein identification and quantitation using Bruker Daltonics' Ultraflex II MALDI-TOF/TOF and HCTultra ion trap mass spectrometers. |
| Invitrogen | SILAC protein identification and quantification labeling technology, as well as mass spectrometry-compatible solubilizers, Invitrosol LC/MS and Invitrosol MALDI, two MALDI matrices (Max Ion protein and Max Ion peptide) and Invitromass HMW and LMW calibrants. |
| PerkinElmer | BioXPRESSION biomarker discovery and screening platform featuring the firm's new Proteomic Signature Technology. The new biomarker platform includes the prOTOF 2000 MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, ProXPRESSION carrier protein-based blood biomarker enrichment kits, and BAMF technology from partner Predictive Diagnostics. |
| Thermo Electron | LTQ Orbitrap hybrid mass spectrometer. |
| Thermo Electron | H-ESI (Heated Electrospray Ionization) Probe with Dual Desolvation Zone technology for the Finnigan TSQ Quantum triple quadrupole instruments. |
| Waters | Micromass Quattro Premier XE bench-top, tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer with a mass range of 2- 3,000 amu configured for atmospheric pressure ionization LC-MS/MS. |
| Waters | nanoACQUITY Ultra Performance LC chromatography system. |
| Waters | MassPREP Phosphopeptide Standard — Enolase, MassPREP Enolase Digest with Phosphopeptides Mix, and MassPREP Enolase Digest and Phosphopeptide Kit for analysis and detection of phosphopeptides. |
| Waters | QuanLynx and OpenLynx Application Managers for the MassLynx 4.1 Software. Allows spectrometrist to automate quantitative or qualitative processing, review results, and generate reports. |
| Waters | MarkerLynx db Application Manager for MassLynx 4.1 Software for multivariate statistical analysis and database searching in metabonomics biomarker research. |
| Waters | GCT Premier bench-top gas chromatography mass spectrometer. |
| Waters | NanoEase Emitter for capillary and nanoflow mass spectrometry applications. |