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Microscale sample preparation

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The demand for microscale analysis has stimulated the development of new solid phase formats in sample preparation.

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Figure 1: Scanning electron microscopy analysis of the expanded chromatography bed in the ZipTip format.
Figure 2: Desalting in-gel digests using a Zip TipC18 for MALDI mass spectrometry analysis: human IgG heavy chain endo lys-c digest.
Figure 3: MALDI TOF mass spectra of oligonucleotides either (A) untreated or (B) after clean up on a ZipTipC18 micropipet device.

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Pluskal, M. Microscale sample preparation. Nat Biotechnol 18, 104–105 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/71778

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