Thermo Fisher Scientific's Exactfinder software, for its Exactive benchtop LC-MS system powered by Orbitrap technology, offers a single streamlined workflow for both targeted and unknown screening.
The software offers food and environmental safety, clinical research and forensic toxicology laboratories a single streamlined data processing, review and reporting workflow for screening results with confidence and easy quantitation.
Before the introduction of Exactfinder, laboratories had to use multiple mass spectrometers and data-processing packages to perform targeted and unknown screening experiments.
With Exactfinder, however, laboratories can process data for screening experiments without the need for multiple software packages.
When combined with the Thermo Scientific Exactive LC-MS, Exactfinder provides a single simplified workflow solution for routine screening and quantitation.
The software also offers easy integration into laboratory workflows with minimal user training.
Its data processing and reporting are automated.
The Exactive LC-MS does not require compound-dependent parameter optimisation, meaning that method development is faster and simplified.
It offers full-scan high-resolution, accurate-mass (HR/AM) spectral data and multiple forms of compound identification integrated into a single software, including a HR/AM spectral library search, isotope pattern matching, and Chemspider, as well as other chemical-database search capabilities.
The HR/AM library includes more than 3,000 mass spectra for more than 1,000 compounds relevant to food safety and environmental testing.
Exactfinder also has advanced software algorithms, including parameter-less peak detection (PPD), automated component detection, isotope pattern-matching with intelligent elemental composition calculation and reverse library search, to facilitate processing of complicated sample analyses with minimal user input.
Thermo Fisher will showcase the Exactfinder software at booth 2835 during Pittcon 2011, being held 13-18 March, in Atlanta.
