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AXIMA Confidence™ - Software Solutions





               Intuitive software incorporating              Synthetic polymers
               data-dependent workflows for achieving
               maximum results with minimum user             Polymers and copolymers can be characterized using our
                                                             unique polymer software, Polymer Analysis™, providing
               input, making the system ideal for
                                                             useful structural information and statistics in a text report
               novice and expert users alike.                format.
               The AXIMA Confidence is controlled by the Launchpad™
                                                             Oligonucleotides
               suite of software, common to all AXIMA mass
               spectrometers, permitting manual or fully automated
                                                             Oligo Analysis™ offers fully automated QC analysis of
               operation facilitating the seamless analysis of as few or
                                                             large numbers of oligonucleotides or peptides, complete
               as many samples as required. Intelligent optimization of  with a report indicating the presence or absence of the
               acquisition conditions may be employed allowing  target compound, an estimate of the purity and
               auto-tuning for specific samples.             occurrence of known contaminants, adducts or
               Ideally suited for life science and analytical environments  truncated/expanded analogues.
               alike, the system offers software packages specifically
               created for:                                  Biomarker discovery
                •  Proteomics experiments
                                                             This exciting area encompassing clinical sample screening
                  •  LC-MALDI                                and profiling is comprehensively addressed using
                    •  Polymer analysis                      automated acquisition methods and refined data
                     •  Biomarker discovery                  processing.
                       •  Oligonucleotide/primer analysis    Data can be easily exported to third party software
                                                             packages to allow comparative experiments using a
               Application-centric data processing software packages
                                                             number of standard data formats including ASCII, mzXML
               are available to provide solutions to many commonly
                                                             and mzData.
               asked questions.
                                                             System support
               Intellimarque™ for automated
               protein identification                        All AXIMA systems can be fully supported throughout
                                                             their lifetime using sophisticated web-based service
               Designed with the flexibility to adapt to user workflows:  diagnostics and realtime remote monitoring. Highly
               from a handful of samples to high-throughput fully  trained specialist local service support engineers are
               automated data generation, data-dependent peptide  available to install and maintain AXIMA mass
               mass fingerprinting (PMF) and MS/MS for protein  spectrometers. A wide range of service contracts is
               identification are integrated into easy-to-use intuitive  available, catering for all budgets and requirements,
               software. The flexibility of the software means it can also  including IQ/OQ environments.
               be applied to other applications requiring automated
                                                             Full training courses are offered by MALDI experts at our
               acquisitions other than just protein identification.  regional corporate training centers or at the customer
               • Peptide mass fingerprints are acquired and subjected  site and may be tailored for specific requirements and
                to an optional integrated Mascot® database search.   applications.
               • User-definable limits for acceptance of PMF-based
                protein identification.
               • Data-dependent MS/MS: using the results of the PMF
                                                             % Int.                1881.87
                search, MS/MS may be performed on ions that were  100
                                                              90
                matched to the top ranked protein hit (confirmation
                                                              80
                MS/MS), in addition to those that were not    70
                (investigation MS/MS).                        60
                                                              50
               • Batch searching of these MS/MS spectra is then  40           1639.91
                performed automatically to provide additional and  30     1439.77  1479.80  2116.82
                                                              20  1017.57  1170.62  1779.77     2525.10
                higher confidence protein identifications.    10       1249.58  1305.68  1401.62  1657.72  1732.61  1837.89  1908.88  2020.93  2072.82  2363.85  2459.14  2615.09
               • Data may be reprocessed and resubmitted for database  0  1000  1200  1400  1600  1800  2000  2200  2400  2600  2800
                                                                                   m/z
                searching at a later time to provide additional
                information.                                 Bovine serum albumin peptide mass fingerprint




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