Open Access Papers

David P. Smith,^a Tom W. Knapman,^a Iain Campuzano,^b Richard W. Malham,^a Joshua T. Berryman,^a Sheena E. Radford^a and Alison E. Ashcroft^a,*
aAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. E-mail: a.e.ashcroft@leeds.ac.uk
^bWaters MS Technologies Centre, Floats Road, Wythenshaw, Manchester, M23 9LZ, UK

Harald Barsnes,^a Ingvar Eidhammer,^a Véronique Cruciani^b,c and Svein-Ole Mikalsen^b
aDepartment of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. E-mail: Harald.Barsnes@ii.uib.no
^bInstitute for Cancer Research, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway
^cPresent address: Affitech AS, Oslo Research Park, Oslo, Norway

Albert Lebedev
Organic Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119992, Russia

W.J. Griffiths,^a K. Karu,^a M. Hornshaw,^b G. Woffendin^b and Y. Wang^a
aThe School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29–39 Brunswick Square, London, UK
^bThermo Electron, Hemel Hempstead, UK

Raluca Stefanescu, Roxan E. Iacob,^a Eugen N. Damoc,^b Andreas Marquardt, Erika Amstalden,^c Marilena Manea, Irina Perdivara, Madalina Maftei, Gabriela Paraschiv and Michael Przybylski^*
University of Konstanz, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Biopolymer Structure Analysis, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. E-Mail: Michael.Przybylski@uni-konstanz.de

F. Tureček
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA

A.G. Marshall,^a C.L. Hendrickson,^a M.R. Emmett,^a R.P. Rodgers,^a G.T. Blakney and C.L. Nilsson
Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310-4005, USA

C. Fenselau, S. Russell, S. Swatkoski and N. Edwards^*
University of Maryland, Deptartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD 20742, USA

P. Španěl^a and D. Smith^b
aJ. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejškova 3, Prague, 18223 Czech Republic
^bKeele University, Stoke-on- Trent, United Kingdom

A. Welford Castleman, Jr
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Penn State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: awc@psu.edu

B. Spengler
University of Giessen, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Schubertstrasse 60, Building 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany

Daniele Fabris,^* Prajakta Chaudhari, Nathan Hagan and Kevin Turner
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Maurizio S. Montaudo
Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, CNR, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. E-mail: mmontaudo@unict.it

Marcos N. Eberlin
ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas 13085-850 Campinas, SP Brazil. E-mail: Eberlin@iqm.unicamp.br

Yoshinao Wada
Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Department of Molecular Medicine. 840 Murodo-cho, Izumi, Osaka 594-1101, Japan

F. Foret and P. Kusý
Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Veveří 97, Brno, Czech Republic

J.S. Becker,^a J.Su. Becker,^b M.V. Zoriy,^a J. Dobrowolska^a and A. Matusch^c
aCentral Division of Analytical Chemistry, Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
^bLaboratoire de Chimie Analytique Bio-Inorganique et Environnement, Centre Technologique Hélioparc, 64053 Pau, France
^cInstitute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Z. Ouyang, L. Gao, M. Fico, W.J. Chappell, R.J. Noll and R.G. Cooks
Department of Chemistry and Schools of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Einar Uggerud
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, PO Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway. einar.uggerud@kjemi.uio.no

Leopoldo Ceraulo,^a,b,* Gianluca Giorgi,^c Vincenzo Turco Liveri,^d David Bongiorno,^a,bSerena Indelicato,^a.b Francesca Di Gaudio^e and Sergio Indelicato^f
aDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari e Biomolecolari (STEMBIO), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 32, I-90123, Palermo, Italy. E-mail: lceraulo@unipa.it
^bCentro Grandi Apparecchiature-UniNetLab, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Marini 14, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
^cDipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Aldo Moro, I-53100 Siena, Italy
^dDipartimento di Chimica “S. Cannizzaro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
^eDipartimento Di Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi (Di.Bi.Me.F.), Via Del Vespro 129, I-90127 Palermo, Italy
^fCQRCLaboratory, A.O.U.P. “P. Giaccone”, Via Del Vespro 129, I-90127 Palermo, Italy

Felice Grandinetti
Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia, L.go dell'Università, s.n.c., 01100 Viterbo, Italy. E-mail: fgrandi@unitus.it

Vincenzo Cunsolo,^* Vera Muccilli, Rosaria Saletti and Salvatore Foti
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. E-mail: vcunsolo@unict.it

Hisham Ben Hamidane, Aleksey Vorobyev and Yury O. Tsybin^*
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, BCH 4307, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: yury.tsybin@epfl.ch

Barbara Ganisl, Monika Taucher, Christian Riml and Kathrin Breuker^*
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. E-mail: kathrin.breuker@uibk.ac.at

Sara Crotti,^a Roberta Seraglia^b and Pietro Traldi
^aDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Cà Foscari University, 2137 Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
^bCNR-ISTM, Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35127 Padova, Italy. E-mail: pietro.traldi@adr.pd.cnr.it

Donatella Aiello,^a Damiano De Luca,^b Emanuela Gionfriddo,^a Attilio Naccarato,^a Anna Napoli ,^a Elvira Romano,^a,c Anna Russo,^c Giovanni Sindona,^a,* Antonio Tagarelli^a
aDipartimento di Chimica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, Cubo 12/C, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy. E-mail: sindona@unical.it
^bCALAB, Laboratorio Chimico Merceologico Della Calabria, 87046 Montalto Uffugo (CS), Italy
^cCRA, Istituto Sperimentale per l'Olivicoltura, c. da Li Rocchi, I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy

H.-Jürgen Kluge
Atomic Physics Division, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt and Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: J.Kluge@GSI.de