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Blank signal zero jelliott11  2023-10-20 17:26
 

Hello to the Skyline team!

I have greatly enjoyed using y'alls software but have been getting hung up on an little issue involving my figures of merit. In some of my quantitative experiments (for small molecules) I have been unable to get consistent LOD values utilizing the 'blank plus 3* SD'. Although I have a handful of blanks within these runs, I believe my issue is due to the fact that there are no peaks within the blanks of my given RT window. I have used the bilinear regression to utilize the turning point as my LOD which I have greatly enjoyed but would like to be able to calculate my LOD with both approaches.

I am looking for some guidance as to how to have some numerical value for my blank signal (peak area?) that would allow me to get usable SD's.

I apologize if this question has been answered already and I greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks:)

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2023-10-20 19:07
Unfortunately, Skyline does not do a good job picking the peak when the analyte cannot actually be detected. For now, you really do need to manually pick the peaks in your blank samples.

We do have plans to make this work better in the next version of Skyline which will probably be released about six months from now.
--Nick