LCGC Europe-06-01-2009

It's all in the perspective.

In this month's "GC Connections", John Hinshaw addresses the causes and effects of peak tailing, as well as ways in which chromatographers can measure and report their misshapen peaks.

United States Pharmacopeia (USP) general chapter 1058 on analytical instrument qualification (AIQ) has finally become official and was released in August 2008 in the first supplement to the USP XXXI.1 This column reviews AIQ and discusses the impact it will have in the regulated chromatography laboratory.

This article will discusss novel analytical methods for the discovery and trace analysis of biochemically active compunds in three main areas: protein analysis, screening technologies and multidimensional separations. The research in protein analysis describes analytical methods that involve automation and integration of sample clean-up, followed by separation and detection of the peptides/proteins.

ALMSCO International announced it has made several significant enhancements to its ClearView chromatography/MS data reprocessing software, which is distributed exclusively by Markes.

The first in a series of interviews where rising research stars interview important figures from the world of chromatography kicks off with Gert Desmet from the Free University of Brussels talking to John Knox.

The historic city of Dresden, Germany will host HPLC 2009 - 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques. This symposium will be held in Dresden's International Congress Centre from 28 June–2 July 2009.