Thermo Scientific Tox Explorer User Manual

Confident. Comprehensive. Concise.
Tox Explorer Collection: Resolute sensitivity enabled by Orbitrap technology
The Thermo Scientific™ Tox Explorer™ Collection features a robust LC-MS/MS platform with class-leading Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ technology and proven methods for toxicology analysis. This workstream provides forensic toxicology, clinical research toxicology, sports anti-doping, and reference laboratories with confident, comprehensive, and concise toxicology screening, identification and confirmation—all with one instrument.
• Confident, robust, and reliable analytical methods featuring the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Plus mass spectrometer and the Thermo Scientific™ Vanquish™ Flex UHPLC system
• Streamline your methods using sample preparation guidelines, high performance HPLC columns, intuitive software capabilities, and comprehensive mass spectral library
• Utilize over 1,500 compounds of interest in the spectral library including compound details, such as exact mass, retention time, and fragment ions encompassing a wide range of drug classes and analytes, and gain access to regular compound updates
• Step up productivity, reduce costs, and achieve high quality analysis of data with confidence—all backed by application support and training
Confident, comprehensive, concise method
Reporting
HRAM mass spectrometer
Robust LC-MS/MS platform for toxicology analysis
Optimized for quick start-up and ease of use, the Tox Explorer Collection is designed to improve eciency and reduce cost throughout the preparation, separation, detection and analysis of drug compounds in multiple biological matrices, such as blood, plasma, and urine with unprecedented speed, ease, and confidence, regardless of the method complexity or user experience level.
Sample Preparation Guidelines
LIBRARY AND SOF TWARE DATA AN ALYSIS
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Vanquish Flex Binary
Reporting
Training
Fast
confident
results
Support
UHPLC system
Productivity and quality in chromatography
With confident retention time stability and maximum pressure up to 1,000 bar, the Vanquish Flex UHPLC systems increase productivity without compromising quality of results. The platform shares all Vanquish system values, such as a design focused on uptime, robustness, and quality, enabling every toxicology laboratory to address their critical screening and quantitation challenges.
• System designed for maximumexibility
• Separations with better reproducibility
• High sample throughput with fast analysis
• Better connectivity of LC-MS with dedicated software
Screening
Over 1,500 compounds in the mass spectral library
Accurate compound identification
Quantitation
Low levels of detection: 1 ng/mL
Linear calibration curves
Confirmation
Library matching
Screen, identify, conrm, and quantitate with Orbitrap technology
The Q Exactive Plus hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer is equipped with the ability to routinely and confidently identify, quantify, and conrm in a single analysis using a single mass spectrometer. Take your screening, quantitation, and conrmation to a new level with increased performance meeting toxicology requirements.
Screen, identify, conrm, and quantitate—all with one instrument
Analyze a broad spectrum of compounds in one run
Perform retrospective analysis without requiring additional experiments
Comprehensive MS/MS spectra without the need to average, while allowing accessibility to positive and negative compounds in one run
Utilize data-dependent acquisition for the identification of unknown structures via MS/MS spectra
Exceptional mass accuracy and stability within and between runs—even at low mass rangesto ensure confidence in results
Intuitive software
Simplify high-throughput screening and quantitation
Driven by a powerful and intuitive set of acquisition and data processing tools, Thermo Scientic TraceFinder software provides rapid access to your results and increases output across the entire laboratory. Drive your productivity with built-in intelligence provided through TraceFinder software acquisition and data processing.
Simplify sample analysis at each step of the process
Smart sampleagging,exible data review, and custom report generation
Streamline and standardize operating procedures, minimizing training requirements and simplifying lab operations
mzVault mass spectral library
HPLC columns
Fast separations with excellent resolution and sensitivity
Based on Core Enhanced Technology, Thermo Scientific™ Accucore™ columns provide fast, high-resolution separations without the elevated backpressures required by sub-2 μm particles.
• Robust columns with wide separation chemistry for all UHPLC applications
• Highly ecient, rugged separations for LC-MS applications
Robustness
Mass accuracy over 400 injections
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The Thermo Scientific™ mzVault™ mass spectral library seamlessly integrates with the acquisition and processing software, TraceFinder software, while providing an extensive repository of valuable information on critical analytes and enables confident identification of small molecules.
• Includes exact mass of compounds
• Includes fragmentation data at dierent collisional energies to help identify unknown compounds
Confident identification of toxicology compounds
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