Chapter 1 Mass Spectrometry and the Proteome

Chapter 2 Basics of Triple-Stage Quadrupole/Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry: Precursor, Product and Neutral-Loss Scanning. Electrospray Ionisation and Nanospray Ionisation

Chapter 3 The Basics of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption, Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry and Post-Source Decay Analysis

Chapter 4 Data-Controlled Micro-Scale Liquid Chromatography — Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Peptides and Proteins: Strategies for Improved Sensitivity, Efficiency and Effectiveness

Chapter 5 Solid-Phase Extraction-Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Low-Abundance Proteins

Chapter 6 Protein Identification by Peptide-Mass Fingerprinting

Chapter 7 Protein Identification by SEQUEST

Chapter 8 Interpreting Peptide Tandem Mass-Spectrometry Fragmentation Spectra

Chapter 9 Automated Interpretation of Peptide Tandem Mass Spectra and Homology Searching

Chapter 10 Specific Detection and Analysis of Phosphorylated Peptides by Mass Spectrometry

Chapter 11 Glycoproteomics: High-Throughput Sequencing of Oligosaccharide Modifications to Proteins

Chapter 12 Proteomics Databases