Traveling Wave Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry to Enhance the Detection of Low Abundance Features in Untargeted Lipidomics

Abstract

Ion mobility has become a valuable tool in mass spectrometry-based lipidomics workflows, thanks to its ability to separate ions in the gas phase based on their size and conformation. Over the last years, it was demonstrated that the comparative analysis of ion mobility data has the potential to highlight the presence of low abundance species in untargeted lipidomics. The present chapter illustrates the background of the topic and guides the reader from the sample preparation to the data analysis of an untargeted lipidomics experiment performed using ion mobility.