A Short Overview of the Components in Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation for Proteomics Analyses

Mass spectrometry has been widely used for analyses of biomolecules such as proteins. The soft ionization methods available nowadays, the faster and more accurate mass spectrome‐ ters, a diversity of protein databases resulting from large scale genome studies and the ad‐ vances in the bioinformatics field for optimized data mining, altogether significantly contributed to high quality outputs in the proteomics area [1-3].