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From the Editor 6
Products 49
Ad Index 50
57th ASMS Conference Preview 10
Helen A. Castro
Accelerated Discovery and Quantitation of Lipids in Complex Extracts 12
Brigitte Simons, Gary Impey, and Eva Duchoslav
Anatomy of an Ion's Fragmentation After Electron Ionization, Part I 18
O. David Sparkman, Patrick R. Jones, and Matthew Curtis
High Performance Mass Spectrometry for Small Molecule and Protein Applications 30
Darwin Asa
The Role of Triple Quadrupole GC–MS in Steroid Analysis 33
Aishah Latiff and Melissa Churley
Using High-Resolution LC–MS to Analyze Complex Sample 38
Markus Kellman, Andreas Wieghaus, Helmut Muenster, Lester Taylor, and Dipankar Ghosh
Structured Approach to Method Development for Bioanalytical HILIC–MS-MS Applications 44
A. Carl Sanchez and Monika Kansal
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