Contents

Imaging mass spectrometry in biological tissues by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
J.S. Becker, J.Su. Becker, M.V. Zoriy, J. Dobrowolska and A. Matusch

Recent advances in cluster science
A. Welford Castleman, Jr

Quadrupole ion traps and trap arrays: geometry, material, scale, performance
Z. Ouyang, L. Gao, M. Fico, W.J. Chappell, R.J. Noll and R.G. Cooks

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: a major tool to investigate reaction mechanisms in both solution and the gas phase
Marcos N. Eberlin

Functional investigations of retroviral protein–ribonucleic acid complexes by nanospray Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
Daniele Fabris, Prajakta Chaudhari, Nathan Hagan and Kevin Turner

Proteomic strategies for rapid characterization of micro-organisms
C. Fenselau, S. Russell, S. Swatkoski and N. Edwards

Microdevices in mass spectrometry
F. Foret and P. Kusý

Metabolomics and metabolite profiling: past heroes and future developments
W.J. Griffiths, K. Karu, M. Hornshaw, G. Woffendin and Y. Wang

Mass spectrometry in the study of mechanisms of aquatic chlorination of organic substrates
Albert Lebedev

Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance: state of the art
A.G. Marshall, C.L. Hendrickson, M.R. Emmett, R.P. Rodgers, G.T. Blakney and C.L. Nilsson

Analysis of melt copolymers
Maurizio S. Montaudo

Mass spectrometric approaches for elucidation of antigen–antibody recognition structures in molecular immunology
Raluca Stefanescu, Roxana E. Iacob, Eugen N. Damoc, Andreas Marquardt, Erika Amstalden, Marilena Manea, Irina Perdivara, Madalina Maftei, Gabriela Paraschiv and Michael Przybylski

Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry for on-line trace gas analysis in biology and medicine
P. Španĕl and D. Smith

Accurate mass as a bioinformatic parameter in data-to-knowledge conversion: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry for peptide de novo sequencing
B. Spengler

Modeling deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid damage in the gas phase
František Tureček

Theory and experiment in mass spectrometry: a perspective on the relationship between computational modelling and experiment in gas-phase ion chemistry
Einar Uggerud

Mass spectrometry in the detection and diagnosis of congenital disorders of glycosylation
Yoshinao Wada