Researchers from the University of California San Diego and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory teamed up to develop the new technology, and late last year, published details of their method in the peer-reviewed scientiÒc journal Nature Protocols.
The article, entitled “3D molecular cartography using LC–MS facilitated by Optimus and ‘ili software,” was published online December 21st by researchers Ivan Protsyuk, Alexey V Melnik, Louis-Felix Nothias, Luca Rappez, Prasad Phapale, Alexander A Aksenov, Amina Bouslimani, Sergey Ryazanov, Pieter C Dorrestein, and Theodore Alexandrov.
The team developed their standardized method for microbe mapping after Òrst establishing how to best gather samples, understand each sample’s composition, and evaluate the Òndings. Once their mapping strategy became reliably useful, the research team built it out into a more user-friendly tool.
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