Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics is being increasingly applied to a number of applications, including the fields of clinical, industrial, plant, and nutritional science. Several improvements have advanced the field considerably over the past decade, including ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (uHPLC), column chemistries, instruments, software, and molecular databases. However, challenges remain, including how to separate small molecules that are part of highly complex samples; this can be accomplished using chromatographic techniques or through improved resolution in the gas phase. Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) provides an extra dimension of gas phase separation that can result in improvements to both quantitation and compound identification. Here we describe a typical drift tube IM-MS metabolomics workflow, which includes the following steps: (1) Data acquisition, (2) Data preprocessing, (3) Molecular feature finding, and (4) Differential analysis and Molecular annotation. Overall, these methods can help investigators from a variety of scientific fields use IM-MS metabolomics as part of their own workflow.
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Reisdorph, R., Michel, C., Quinn, K., Doenges, K., & Reisdorph, N. (2020). Untargeted Differential Metabolomics Analysis Using Drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2084, pp. 55–78). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0030-6_3
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