ABSTRACT
Modern analytical chemistry instrument development and new ideas for methods of use for these machines have flourished over the last decades, producing many different sophisticated instrument platforms capable of providing diagnostic information for modern medicine. In particular, mass spectrometry (MS) instruments have the capability to monitor many different chemicals in human effluents, and this information can sometimes be correlated with a clinical disease or disorder diagnosis. The concepts of “metabolomics” and “proteomics” both use spectrometry-like instruments to characterize processes ongoing within the human body, with the final purpose of potentially providing a new clinical tool to aid patient care and disease diagnosis and management.
