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Table 3 Results of the interlaboratory study involving 1972 spectra of 15 compounds acquired in seven labs using different Orbitrap configurations and QqTOFs

From: A European proposal for quality control and quality assurance of tandem mass spectral libraries

Laboratory

Instrument type

CE range

Number of spectra

Sensitivity [%] of the test set

Sensitivity [%] of the library

1

Q-Orbitrap-LIT

10–80%

60

95.0

92.8

2

Q-Orbitrap

10–80%

225

98.7

94.2

3

Q-Orbitrap

15–90%

82

73.2

78.5

4

LIT-Orbitrap with HCD

5–80%

236

81.8

94.7

5

LIT-Orbitrap with CID

10–130%

518

82.4

83.2

 

LIT-Orbitrap with HCD

10–185%

343

93.4

93.8

6

QqTOF

5–50eV

150

94.0

79.9

7

QqTOF

5–50 eV

150

100

96.2

  1. The eight spectral collections were benchmarked against the WRTMD. The numbers of correct positive identifications (= sensitivities) obtained for the individual sets are listed