Mestrelab at ASMS – MS for the masses?
I have just arrived at the ASMS (American Society of Mass Spectrometry) Conference, to be held in Philadelphia during this oncoming week.
You may be wondering, what is Mestrelab doing at an MS conference? The answer is simple, we are launching our new LC/GC/MS plugin for Mnova. As many of you probably know or realize, Mnova has been designed as a container potentially capable of accommodating different analytical techniques, a sort of software suite for Analytical Chemistry. The idea was always to extend our capabilities from NMR to other areas, such as LC/GC/MS, IR, etc.
A first screenshot of the MS plugin, supporting different MS traces as well as TIC and other traces (UV, PDA, etc)
The benefits to our users are obvious, as they will be able to use the same software application for NMR and LC/GC/MS, and this will result in a smaller learning curve, the ability to report both techniques jointly (which is very often necessary), less software installations and support and the application of the Mnova NMR concepts of speed and ease of use to the new analytical techniques we are incorporating. In addition, we outscore most analytical softwares in many areas such as reporting and exporting capabilities, interaction with 3rd party applications, automation, etc., and all these are leveraged from day one by Mnova MS.
We have now completed the first stage of this process and ASMS will see the unveiling of our Mnova LC/GC/MS pre-release candidate. Our aim is to give this software to approximately 100 users for a few weeks to gather feedback, and then to make it available to our customer base to add to their Mnova distributions, if desired, as an additional commercial plugin. If you are using both techniques and you interact regularly with both NMR and LC/GC/MS, this could well be great news for you. Let us know by writing to support@mestrec.com if you would like to try the pre-release candidate as soon as it is available in the oncoming couple of weeks.
Our idea for Mnova was multiplatform, multivendor and multitechnique. We can now claim to have achieved all of them! Of course, there is a lot still to do 
In this case, we have stuck to our concept or philosophy of sticking to what we do well and working with experts, and this plugin has been developed in collaboration with Sierra Analytics Inc., who have many years experience in the development of software tools for LC/GC/MS.
Above you can find the first public screenshot of the application. Over the next few days, I will post some more information and videos on this blog, keep an eye on it!
The rumored release of your LC-MS data processing software has been a long time coming but as a first release it looks very interesting. Moving from NMR to LC-MS is a good move as it allows you to cover the two primary techniques used by chemists to elucidate structures. Good luck
Hi, ChemSpiderman,
Thank you for the encouragement. Our midterm aim is to allow chemists to do all their analytical work within one environment, and to allow organizations to fully standardize. The challenge is coming up with a set of tools that people who are focused on each of the techniques like (we have a good idea of what NMR power users like, but things get harder when we go to other techniques where we are less experienced. This means we have to find good partnerships and listen to users even more intently. Congrats on RSC, BTW