About the Authors
- Justin D. Blethrow
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Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Chao Tang
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Affiliation XProteo Inc, New York, New York, United States of America
- Changhui Deng
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Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Andrew N. Krutchinsky
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: krutcha@picasso.ucsf.edu
Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors of the article, except AK, have no competing financial interests. AK declares a competing financial interest. ThermoElectron and Perkin Elmer license the rights to produce some parts of the MALDI interfaces for vMALDI-IT and prOTOF mass spectrometers. AK is a co-author of several patents covering these parts.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: AK JB. Analyzed the data: AK JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK JB CD. Wrote the paper: AK JB. Other: Produced XProteo search engine for identification of proteins: CT.