We have had an excellent week at the ASMS Conference, showcasing our soon to be released MS plugin for Mnova. The plugin was very well received by all those attendees who saw it. If you want to see it yourself, just click on this link or on the image below to watch a short introductory video.As I already explained on my previous post, our aim with this plugin is to give synthetic, organic and analytical chemists the opportunity to combine the 2 techniques they most often have to use for analysis and reporting of small molecules into one single software application, with a common philosophy and GUI.

This will mean that anybody working with these data (and potentially even in multivendor situations for both techniques, picture for example a laboratory with Varian, Bruker and JEOL NMRs and Agilent, Thermo and Waters LC/GC/MS) will have to learn only one software application and will be able to combine the reporting of both techniques into a single document.

In addition, the Mnova MS plugin is designed and targeted for the needs of the non-expert user. File opening is totally transparent and parameter free, dataset navigation and display is extremely intuitive and simple, and the software allows a chemist to answer the 4 questions most synthetic / organic / medicinal chemist try to answer by LC/GC/MS:

1. Did I make the compound/s I was trying to make?
2. If I did, how pure are they?
3. Which impurities are present in my resulting compounds?
4. If I did not make the compounds I expected, what did I make?

If you are working with LC/GC/MS and normally try to answer these questions or have to report this kind of information, this plugin is definitely for you.

If you have found this video interesting and you would like to try the plugin, just let us know via the Comments in the blog or by writing to support@mestrec.com.

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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!

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