Information management device for mass spectrometer

Abstract

An information management device for a mass spectrometer is provided and can simply and efficiently perform associated registration between information of a plurality of pores in a sample plate and recognition information of a test piece loaded in each pore. An imager (13) takes an image of a sample-placement surface of a sample plate (5). A plate identifier (103) decodes a barcode on the image toacquire a plate ID, recognizes the well arrangement, and retrieves a template having a cell arrangement corresponding to the well arrangement from a plate information storage section (101). A samplepresence identifier (104) identifies, from the image, a well on which a sample is placed. A plate correspondence information input assistant (105) creates a template image in which the background color of the cells is changed depending on the presence of the sample, and displays it on a display unit (12). An analysis operator inputs information into each cell by a direct character-input operationor a drag-and-drop operation from a previously created sample list. The inputted information is associated with the corresponding well number and stored in a registration information storage section (107).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a device for managing various information such as information on a sample to be analyzed by mass spectrometry, analysis conditions during mass spectrometry, analysis results collected by mass spectrometry, and more specifically, a device suitable for management and use. An information management device for a mass spectrometer that acquires information related to a mass spectrometer for a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization method or a laser desorption ionization plasma method. Background technique [0002] In the measurement based on the matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOFMS), usually, the well prepared on the sample plate (sample plate) (sometimes also called target plate) A sample prepared by mixing matrices is irradiated with laser light to ionize the components in the sample, and mass spectrometry is performed on the generated ions. In addition, recently, ...

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Problems solved by technology

When the same sample is mounted in a plurality of wells and analyzed separately, there is also a problem that it is necessary to summarize the analysis results for such different wells, but this operation is also very cumbersome and labor-intensive.

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