Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex Introduce Two Mass Spectrometers

Applied Biosystems Group, together with its joint venture partner MDS Sciex, announced the launch of two new mass spectrometers, the 3200 Q TRAP and the API 3200 LC/MS/MS Systems with Turbo V Source for added sensitivity, throughput and cost-effectiveness in mass spectrometry-based workflows.

By incorporating the Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex Turbo V source and API 4000 LC/MS/MS System-series interface and ionization sources into a smaller platform, these new systems provide increased sensitivity, greater flexibility and improved ease-of-use when compared to similarly priced instruments. The ceramic interface of the API 3200 and 3200 Q TRAP LC/MS/MS Systems reduces chemical background and improves sensitivity under LC conditions, yielding better efficiency, relative to older source technologies, especially at higher flow rates.

The 3200 Q TRAP System is a hybrid triple quadrupole-linear ion trap for small molecule identification, characterization and quantification, and protein biomarker discovery, validation and quantification. The system provides greater than two-fold sensitivity increase in linear ion trap mode at all flow rates, and up to a five-fold signal-to-noise increase in traditional triple quadrupole mode over its predecessor, the Q TRAP LC/MS/MS System.