NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Bruker said today at the 12th annual meeting of the Human Proteome Organization in Yokohama, Japan, that it has launched a second-phase collaboration agreement with SISCAPA Assays Technologies to apply the SISCAPA immunoenrichment mass spec method to its MALDI-TOF instruments.

Through the collaboration, the two firms aim to establish fully automated SISCAPA-MALDI workflows in Bruker's demonstration facilities as well as to develop and validate new protein assays, with a particular focus on assays of relevance to clinical microbiology research.