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Michael MacCoss

@maccoss.bsky.social
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Professor of Genome Sciences University of Washington, Seattle. Interested in proteomics and mass spectrometry.

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
CasanovoGUI: a cross-platform desktop application for deep learning-based de novo peptide sequencing with Casanovo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2026
The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.
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Community Voices: On the Events of the American Diabetes Association 86th Scientific Sessions
The editorial and the seven opinion articles posted here were scheduled for publication on July 13, 2026, in the journal, Diabetes Care. All articles were provided, in advance of the scheduled publica...
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#NeuroDegeneration preprints @prepub-neurodegen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Circulating extracellular vesicles in plasma carry accessible molecular signatures of aging in mice #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv-molbio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Circulating extracellular vesicles in plasma carry accessible molecular signatures of aging in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Back to the Future! New preprint. A while back, we recognized that resonance excitation CID had real advantages over beam-type CID for data independent acquisition. The catch was speed: reCID was simply too slow to be practical. Not anymore. #proteomics #ASMS #DIA
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The MacCoss Lab is at ASMS. Looking forward to seeing everyone. #ASMS #massspec #proteomics
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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
(BioRxiv All) A quantitative proteomics dataset for assessment and prediction of low dose X-ray radiation exposure in mice.: Ionizing radiation induces molecular responses that may be used to estimate exposure when physical dosimeters are unavailable. Here we present two… #BioRxiv #MassSpecRSS
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A quantitative proteomics dataset for assessment and prediction of low dose X-ray radiation exposure in mice.
Ionizing radiation induces molecular responses that may be used to estimate exposure when physical dosimeters are unavailable. Here we present two large-scale proteomics datasets generated from mouse dorsal skin punch samples collected following controlled X-ray exposures spanning multiple doses, dose rates, and post-exposure time points. Experiment 1 comprised 96 samples (including 16 reference samples) collected 6 days after exposure to 0-75 cGy delivered at either 30 or 300 cGy/min. Experiment 2 comprised 936 samples (including 236 reference samples) exposed to 0-100 cGy at either 3 or 28 cGy/min dose rates and harvested between 7 and 150 days post-exposure. All samples were processed using a standardized workflow involving automated bead-based digestion and data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry. The datasets include multiple pooled reference sample types, process controls, and system suitability standards ensuring high quality data. All data presented are available via ProteomeXchange at several levels of processing, from raw files through normalized peptide- and protein-level abundance matrices suitable for biomarker discovery and machine learning applications. This dataset will facilitate generation of new insights into the biological changes and molecular signatures resulting from X-ray exposure in mice and may also help inform future studies in humans.
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Brett Phinney @ucdproteomics.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's that time of year again for are Annual proteomics chart course! Going on almost 20 years! Honestly it's a good class for those wanting to add proteomics to your research. And Proteomics really is the best Omics if I don't say so myself #proteomics #massspec #proteome #massspectrometry
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MS Bioworks @msbioworks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Did you Skyline has an MCP server? Straight from @maccoss.bsky.social #Proteomics #AI
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Lindsay K Pino @lindsaykpino.com · 02/05/2026
claude.com/blog/onboard... Wait I know them! (Brendan not on bsky so I'll tag @maccoss.bsky.social ) #TeamMassSpec #proteomics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Lukas Käll @lukaskall.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We're hiring! Two fully funded PhD positions are open in my group at KTH/SciLifeLab, both in the intersection between machine learning, mass spectrometry, and proteomics. One EU MSCA-funded, one DDLS. Details below 👇
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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
(MS Reviews) Editorial for the Special Honor Issue Honoring Dr. Carlito B. Lebrilla: Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView. #MassSpectromRev #MassSpecRSS
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Editorial for the Special Honor Issue Honoring Dr. Carlito B. Lebrilla
Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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Lindsay K Pino @lindsaykpino.com · 31/03/2026
Getting the ol' grad school gang back together with Carafe2 -- Bo Wen (@maccoss.bsky.social and Bill Noble) and @jspaezp.bsky.social (@willfondrie.com at @talusbio.bsky.social) teamed up for essentially some late night hackathons to build out Carafe for @brukercorporation.bsky.social timsTOF data.
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ReSyn Biosciences @resynbio.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📢 Publication alert🌶️! Congrats to the @maccoss.bsky.social lab who show the use #Mag_Net for enrichment of EV's from #serum to study the effects of monoclonal antibody therapy on the fate and function of T-cells in people with type 1 diabetes! biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Gairdner Foundation @gairdnerawards.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Congratulations to John R. Yates III, Ruedi Aebersold and Matthias Mann, recipients of the 2026 Canada Gairdner International Award. Prof. Yates: www.gairdner.org/winner/john-... Prof. Aebersold: www.gairdner.org/winner/ruedi... Prof. Mann: www.gairdner.org/winner/matth... #2026GairdnerAwards
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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
(BioRxiv All) Serum proteomics reveals distinct phenotypic signatures to IL-6 blockade between two immunotherapies: A recent clinical study tested the effects of two different monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (siltuximab, anti-IL6; tocilizumab, anti-IL6R) on the fate and function… #BioRxiv #MassSpecRSS
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Serum proteomics reveals distinct phenotypic signatures to IL-6 blockade between two immunotherapies
A recent clinical study tested the effects of two different monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (siltuximab, anti-IL6; tocilizumab, anti-IL6R) on the fate and function of T-cells in people with type 1 diabetes. While both mAbs affect the response of T-cells to stimulation, they have very different, sometimes opposing mechanisms. Here, we use mass-spectrometry based proteomics to analyze longitudinal serum samples (baseline and two weeks post-treatment) from 20 clinical trial participants to examine the effects of siltuximab and tocilizumab on extracellular vesicles. To accomplish this, serum samples were enriched for extracellular vesicles with Mag-Net and analyzed by LC-MS/MS to identify significantly differentially abundant protein groups and pathways. Proteome analysis confirmed highly reproducible measurements across multiple draw dates. In total, we quantified 3300 protein groups of which 46 protein groups had significantly altered abundance after mAb treatment. Tocilizumab altered pathways associated with proteostasis (neddylation) and pre-notch transcription and translation. Siltuximab altered FCGR activation pathway members. In addition, quantitation of the monoclonal antibody therapies themselves enabled the measurement of the correlation between drug amounts and impacted proteins. Taken together, this work demonstrates the utility of the Mag-Net method to evaluate the impacts of therapeutic interventions on serum extracellular vesicles.
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ReSyn Biosciences @resynbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📢Publication Alert🌶️! #IRCCS developed a #multiomics workflow for #lipidomics and EV #proteomics analysis of very preterm infants using just 10 µl of plasma with #Mag_Net (from the lab of @maccoss.bsky.social) #TeamMassSpec #TeamReSynBio www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ying Ge @yingge2121.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#ushupo2026 huge congratulations to Mike @maccoss.bsky.social for winning the @us-hupo.org Don Hunt Distinguished contribution in Proteomics award - so well -deserved! 👍🙌🎉 Also congrats to Bill Noble for receiving Omenn Computational proteomics award and Nathan for Cotter New investigator award🥇 🎉🙌👍
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Excited we renewed our long-term relationship with Sciex to ensure our software tools Skyline, MSConvert, Panorama, AutoQC, etc... work seamlessly with Sciex hardware. We have big plans for Skyline in the upcoming year.
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Looking forward to hearing how @talusbio.bsky.social is using Skyline in their latest applications.
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US HUPO @us-hupo.org · 30/01/2026
The US HUPO sponsored "Pony Express" series highlights speakers at the upcoming #USHUPO2026 meeting. Ben and Ben sit down to talk with Dr. William Noble, University of Washington, recipient of the 2026 Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award. Listen Now: ow.ly/XiBa50Y6o4m
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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Special Issue on Women in Proteomics www.mcponline.org/ar... --- #proteomics #prot-paper
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It took a while for us to get this paper finalized! Pretty excited for this to be out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Development of highly multiplex targeted proteomics assays in biofluids using a nominal mass ion trap mass spectrometer
The development of targeted assays that monitor biomedically relevant proteins is an important step in bridging discovery experiments to large scale c…
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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 12/12/2025
#THEProteomicsShow is back and now we’re talking about #USHUPO2026. Me and Ben @proteomicsnews.bsky.social got to talk to Mike MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social and it’s everything you’d want: quant, mentoring and car discussions. Find it wherever you find fine podcast or here anchor.fm/theproteomic...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
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Nate Basisty (he/him) @nbasisty.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Huge honor to be recognized by @us-hupo.org! Congratulations to the truly deserving winners - @maccoss.bsky.social, William Noble, @nlkproteomics.bsky.social, Lingjun Li! #USHUPO2026 #USHUPO
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Super exiting! What could be better than winning an award? Winning in the same year as a former UW trainee (Nate), one of my closest colleagues (Bill), and two good friends (Neil and Lingjun). See you all in St. Louis!
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Fantastic project led by @bo-wen.bsky.social. Excited to see the future uses of AI and transfer learning in proteomics. #massspec #proteomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carafe enables high quality in silico spectral library generation for data-independent acquisition proteomics - Nature Communications
Accurate spectral libraries are essential for analyzing data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics data. Here, the authors present Carafe, which trains on DIA data to build experiment-specific spec...
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 05/11/2025
My favourite attendee feedback: "I loved this class and I am super excited about Skyline, which is totally new to me. Halfway into the class I'm thinking "I've been living under a rock, this is going to change my life!" Without a doubt this class will have the highest ROI of anything I do this year"
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Lindsay K Pino @lindsaykpino.com · 03/11/2025
Day 1 of the @asms.org Fall Workshop on "Fundamentals of Instrumentation" and oh boy I am humbled. www.asms.org/conferences/...
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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Understanding m/z range settings for MS/MS scans: a case study with intact glycopeptides chemrxiv.org/engage/... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to see this published in JPR. For years I've wanted a simple way to standardize the signal between instruments. We use the precision of an intraspectrum ratio to assess the relationship between the reported signal and the number of ions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Evaluation of a Prototype Orbitrap Astral Zoom Mass Spectrometer for Quantitative Proteomics─Beyond Identification Lists
Mass spectrometry instrumentation continues to evolve rapidly, yet quantifying these advances beyond conventional peptide and protein detections remains challenging. Here, we evaluate a modified Orbit...
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Lindsay K Pino @lindsaykpino.com · 16/10/2025
Wrapping up the skyline.ms virtual workshop on #MassSpectrometry #proteomics with Advanced Proteomics: data independent acquisition today, post-translational modifications tomorrow. @juank1892.bsky.social @arianashannon.bsky.social @miriamabele.bsky.social (anybody else on bsky?) 🖥️🧬🧪
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 10/10/2025
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 08/10/2025
Very excited to kick off the annual Skyline Online 2025 Small Molecule course with a keynote lecture by Gary Patti @gjpattij.bsky.social. Showing how his lab and collaborators are advancing mass spectrometry to achieve parity with sequencing techs, supported by Skyline!
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Bhavesh Parmar @thatmassspecguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Gearing up for what promises to be an exciting week ahead @crg.eu #CRGtraining #teamMassSpec
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Proteomics Webinar: DIA with FragPipe, DIA-NN, and Skyline Presenters: Eduard Sabidó and Brendan MacLean When: Tuesday, September 16, 8am (Pacific Time) Register Now ... skyline.ms/project/home... #massspec #proteomics
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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Staff scientist position in the Mass Spec Lab at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence lsuhsc.peopleadmin.com/postings/20349
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STAFF SCIENTIST OR STAFF SCIENTIST SENIOR
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD Chemist to join our laboratory as a Staff Scientist or Staff Scientist Senior and work on lipidomic and LC- MS/MS. Those with experience or willing to be trained ...
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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
(J Proteom Res) [ASAP] Fast and Memory-Efficient Searching of Large-Scale Mass Spectrometry Data Using Tide: Journal of Proteome ResearchDOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00297 #MassSpecRSS
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[ASAP] Fast and Memory-Efficient Searching of Large-Scale Mass Spectrometry Data Using Tide
Journal of Proteome ResearchDOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00297
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HUPO @hupo-org.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🚨 Webinar Alert! 🚨 Carafe enables high-quality in silico spectral library generation for data independent acquisition proteomics 📅 August 5 - 19:00 Seattle / August 6 - 10:00 Beijing 💡 Don't miss this chance to learn from the experts #Proteomics
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Mowei Zhou @moweiz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our CNHUPO OES webinar 7 will be from Bo Wen at MacCoss Lab & Noble Lab at University of Washington, hosted by Wenfeng Zeng at Westlake University (10AM on Aug 6 UTC+8). Mark your calendar to learn more about DIA proteomics! @maccoss.bsky.social @us-hupo.org
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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Improvements to Casanovo, a deep learning de novo peptide sequencer www.biorxiv.org/cont... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint
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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Success! We've now run almost 2000 mouse cortex and plasma samples through this assay so expect more publications referencing it very soon. Much thanks to the Skyline team and @maccoss.bsky.social #modelad #teammassspec #proteomics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Analytical development and application of a targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for chimeric aducanumab
A sensitive and specific liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay was developed for the quantification of chimeric aducanumab (chAdu), a therapeutic antibody targeting pathological amyl...
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Olatomiwa Bifarin @bifarinthefifth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My latest academic work on applied NLP is now published in Analytical Chemistry: "A Large Language Model–Powered Map of Metabolomics Research" Paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021... App: metascape.streamlit.app/
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Michael Riffle @mriffle.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
De novo DIA searching and a Nextflow workflow to run it and generate Skyline documents? Yes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A transformer model for de novo sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data - Nature Methods
Cascadia is a mass spectrometry-based de novo sequencing model that uses a transformer architecture to handle data-independent acquisition data and achieves substantially improved performance across a...
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If you asked me 5 years ago if it would be possible to use a de novo tool on DIA data, I would have thought it would only exist in science fiction. Love being proved wrong. Great work from Justin Sanders. #proteomics #massspectrometry www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A transformer model for de novo sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data - Nature Methods
Cascadia is a mass spectrometry-based de novo sequencing model that uses a transformer architecture to handle data-independent acquisition data and achieves substantially improved performance across a...
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Michael MacCoss @maccoss.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Mag-Net paper is out! We've now put 1000s of plasma samples through this protocol and we know others have too. We've used it to study dozens of diseases. Looking forward to seeing what others apply this towards. The preprint already has >39 citations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Enrichment of extracellular vesicles using Mag-Net for the analysis of the plasma proteome - Nature Communications
Authors report MagNet, a plasma extracellular vesicle (EV) enrichment strategy using magnetic beads. Proteomic interrogation of this plasma EV fraction enables the detection of proteins that are beyon...
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