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Michael Steidel
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#Cellzome #TeamMassSpec #Proteomics opinions are my own
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Weather’s going wild, and now your mass spec data’s a mess too?

Coindidence? Nope!

We reveal how weather-driven air pressure fluctuations impact diaPASEF-based high troughput proteomics - and how to fix it!

Check out our new paper! #diaPASEF #Weatheromics

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Impact of Local Air Pressure on Ion Mobilities and Data Consistency in diaPASEF-Based High Throughput Proteomics
Data-independent acquisition (DIA) on ion mobility mass spectrometers enables deep proteome coverage and high data completeness in large-scale proteomics studies. For advanced acquisition schemes such as parallel accumulation serial fragmentation-based DIA (diaPASEF) stability of ion mobility (1/K0) over time is crucial for consistent data quality. We found that minor changes in environmental air pressure systematically affect the vacuum pressure in the TIMS analyzer, causing ion mobility shifts. By comparing experimental ion mobilities with historical weather data, we attributed observed drifts to fluctuations in the ground air pressure. Moderate air pressure changes of e.g. fifteen mbar induce ion mobility shifts of 0.025 Vs/cm2. These drifts negatively impact peptide quantification across consecutively acquired samples due to drift-dependent abundance changes and increased missing values for ions located at the boundaries of diaPASEF isolation windows, which cannot be corrected by postprocessing. To address this, we applied an in-batch mobility autocalibration feature on a run-wise basis, leading to full elimination of ion mobility drifts.
pubs.acs.org
Hey #TeamMassSpec,

Many non-human proteomics studies still search against taxon-filtered FASTAs.

❌ Redundant sequences
❌ Inflated search space
✅ Reference proteomes cut redundancy, improve annotation, and make results comparable.

👉 Time to move beyond taxon filters. #proteomics #massspec #uniprot
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
Without #2, a lower ion count is needed just to be sure that the full MS range is scanned, but with more accurate ion counts, you can go to the max S/N without losing ions on the edges.
This could also work for the Orbitrap Astral.

Bonus: DIAPASEF on Thermo - patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/de...
September 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
With 𝗗𝗜𝗔-𝗡𝗡 𝟮.𝟯.𝟬 Preview (Academia-only for now), we showcase the transformative new capabilities that have been developed in the past months. Download: github.com/vdemichev/Di...
September 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hey #TeamMassSpec,

When you run proteomics on non-human species (mouse, rat, macaque, etc.) — which protein FASTA do you prefer?

Taxonomy-filtered UniProt (all entries)

Reference proteome (SwissProt+TrEMBL)

Ensembl/GENCODE

Something else?
September 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Astral Zoom hits >7,000 protein groups & 67,000 precursors — on a 500 SPD EvoSep ENO run.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
DIA, DOA, DUI, DDA, etc. Here is a comparisons of some quantitative proteomics methods from a POV you might not have seen before:
github.com/pwilmart/qua...
GitHub - pwilmart/quantitative_proteomics_comparison: Comparison of DIA to spectral counting and TMT quantitative techniques using animal lens studies
Comparison of DIA to spectral counting and TMT quantitative techniques using animal lens studies - pwilmart/quantitative_proteomics_comparison
github.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sciex in the game.

Pretty impressed by ScanningSWATH data on the new ZenoTOF 8600.

#TeamMassSpec
June 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#TeamMassSpec, Any opinions on why not generally adding the relatively small yeast proteome to the anyway large human search space (*.fasta) as an internal FDR quality control?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Assessment of false discovery rate control in tandem mass spectrometry analysis using entrapment - Nature Methods
A theoretical foundation for entrapment methods is presented, along with a method that enables more accurate evaluation of false discovery rate (FDR) control in proteomics mass spectrometry analysis p...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
The videos from the 8th Single-Cell Proteomics Conference (#SCP2025) will be joining this growing YouTube playlist.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
June 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hi #TeamMassSpec #EvoSep
Anyone using WhisperZoom for standard inputs (~500 ng)?
Getting great data on timsTOF Pro Ultra (with ICC2), but repeatedly hit overpressure on Aurora columns - forcing me to discard them.
Anyone else seeing this?
June 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
Introducing the new timsMetabo! A metabolomics focused timsTOF:
- enhanced ion capacity of the dual-stage TIMS-MX ion funnel
- Athen Ion Processor-equipped timsMetabo, up to 300 Hz PRM
Also QSee software (a nightmare at talks, QC or Qsee?).
As found by Biswapriya Misra
www.bruker.com/en/news-and-...
May 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

timePlex enables time-domain sample multiplexing in LC-MS — boosting proteomics throughput up to 9× with no labels and minimal compromise in quant accuracy.

Combine with plexDIA for 27 samples/run.
Increasing mass spectrometry throughput using time-encoded sample multiplexing
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) can enable precise and accurate quantification of analytes at high-sensitivity, but the rate at which samples can be analyzed remains limiting. Throughp...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
I am excited to see our performance assessment of the successor of Scanning SWATH on the Zeno TOF7600+ mass spectrometer - ZT Scan DIA - pre-printed (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Performance Characteristics of Zeno Trap Scanning DIA for Sensitive and Quantitative Proteomics at High Throughput
Proteomic experiments, particularly those addressing dynamic proteome properties, time series, or genetic diversity, require the analysis of large sample numbers. Despite significant advancements in p...
www.biorxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"when compared to DIA-NN, DIA-BERT demonstrated a 51% increase in protein identifications and 22% more peptide precursors"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DIA-BERT: pre-trained end-to-end transformer models for enhanced DIA proteomics data analysis - Nature Communications
Data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) has emerged as a key technology in quantitative proteomics. Here, the authors introduce DIA-BERT, a transformer model pre-trained on existing DI...
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
April 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
Significant impact of consumable material and buffer composition for low-cell number proteomic sample preparation chemrxiv.org/engage/...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint
March 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hey #TeamMassSpec #SingleCell #Proteomics, when using DDM in your workflow do you see it eluting from the column? If so at which m/z. Desperately looking for [M+H]+ at m/z 511.32
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
„Our method clusters peptides
with similar quantitative behavior, providing a new approach to the protein grouping
problem and enabling identification of regulated proteoforms directly from bottom-up data.“

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tree-based quantification infers proteoform regulation in bottom-up proteomics data
Quantitative readout is essential in proteomics, yet current bioinformatics methods lack a framework to handle the inherent multi-level nature of the data (fragments, MS1 isotopes, charge states, modi...
www.biorxiv.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
March 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
Protein IDs for early #PAMAF performance on an Agilent QTOF (fyi - not our final detector) #USHUPO
February 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
To those attending USHUPO: Is anyone willing to leak the absolute IDs in addition to the relative Mobilion IDs from the whitepaper? #TeamMassSpec #Proteomics #PAMAF
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Michael Steidel
The Trump administration is so on top of things that scientists EXTERNALLY FUNDED BY INDUSTRY WHO MAKE THE HHS MONEY are receiving termination letters. These fucking morons have no idea how the government even works. AT ALL
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM