[Discussion] can we stop arguing about method development until somebody posts a number
can we stop arguing about method development until somebody posts a number. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. System suitability — repeat injections, tailing factor, plate count, RSD on area — is what tells you the instrument was fit for the measurement that day. Without it, the…
Chased a ghost peak for three weeks. It was the plumbing. It is always the plumbing.
Sent the same vial to PeptideMeter and Medutest. 97.9% against a claimed 97.0%. The difference was the gradient, not the material.
That figure cannot be quoted to two decimals off that baseline. The precision is not in the data.
That is area percent, not mass percent. The trace cannot give you the second one.
Push back: a longer run is not automatically better resolution. You are trading peak width for time and the ratio is what matters.
Sent the same vial to PeptideMeter and Medutest.
salma_vasquez is right — the integration choice is a decision and it should be stated alongside the result.
a blank injection between samples costs four minutes and settles most arguments