Almsco has launched its Targetview Software package, which has been designed to automate and improve the detection and measurement of multiple target chemicals in complex GC/MS data sets.
The software will benefit GC/MS users in a range of fields, including environmental monitoring, food/flavour/fragrance profiling, forensic science and testing chemical emissions from consumer goods.
Targetview is designed to provide a simpler, more accurate way of identifying which target compounds are present in a sample.
In addition to this, it provides reliable peak area information to complement and support quantification by conventional GC/MS data-handling packages.
Targetview can also be used to identify the total number of compounds present in a sample by library searching.
The interface and reporting format are designed to be easy to use, with few parameters requiring manual setting and no need for in-depth knowledge in either deconvolution or chemometrics.
The software package can process all common GC/MS data formats, lending itself to simple integration with existing laboratory procedures.
Targetview also works with chromatograms of worst-case complexity - for example, with high numbers of analytes of varying concentrations and with high degrees of compound co-elution.
The software package compares clean, deconvoluted mass spectral data against EI mass spectra in existing libraries (commercial or proprietary) using a chemometric process.
It can automatically detect hundreds of target compounds in one run and immediately generates a simple customisable report, including details such as retention times, quantification ions, peak area values and match coefficients as required.
Targetview is the latest addition to Almsco's product portfolio, which also includes the bench-top time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer, BenchTOF-dx.
BenchTOF-dx offers full-scan sensitivity at typical GC-quad SIM levels.
It also combines speed and resolution with high spectral quality, even at trace concentrations.
BenchTOF-dx readily integrates with existing gas chromatographs (GCs) and associated data-handling/control packages, enabling analysts to screen samples for trace target compounds at much lower levels on a routine basis.
