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c/hplc·posted 20 days ago by u/cagrilintide_enthusiast

retention time shifted 0.4 min and nobody wants to talk about it

Method Clean Column ×5 Receipts ×1

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking method development against eGFR for 19 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa170 points·20 days ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/marit_mensa142 points·20 days ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/zeynep_zielinski209 points·20 days ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/step_count_stan103 points·19 days ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

Adding to this: gradient is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/adaeze_batista138 points·20 days ago·edited

Gradient goblin mode: changed the solvent composition 23 times, finally got good resolution on a LC-MS peak.

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u/cagrilintide_enthusiastOP84 points·19 days ago

Gradient goblin mode: changed the solvent composition 23 times, finally got good resolution on a LC-MS peak.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/reverse_image_ron68 points·19 days ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/freya_baptista86 points·19 days ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 14 analysts integrated 39 different ways. Same trace, 96.2 spread.

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u/rosa_sandvik58 points·19 days ago·edited

A shoulder on the main peak that 23 analysts integrated 36 different ways. Same trace, 99.2 spread.

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u/peak_area_peteMOD42 points·19 days ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/arne_nyberg15 points·19 days ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/mateusz_mensah47 points·18 days ago

The PeptideMeter result being close to my own HPLC is the signal, not the absolute number. Both are right.

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u/blunt_coldbox_20240 points·18 days ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/canada_coverage39 points·19 days ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/amara_haddad11 points·19 days ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 97.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/kofi_ferreira5 points·18 days ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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u/nabila_espinoza20 points·19 days ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/dead_space_doug13 points·19 days ago·edited

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

Adding to this: method development is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/mariam_cabrera22 points·18 days ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 2 analysts integrated 40 different ways. Same trace, 98.1 spread.

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u/aksel_kjaer26 points·18 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.2, not 97.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/cagrilintide_enthusiastOP12 points·17 days ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/clara_danquah19 points·19 days ago·edited

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/week_four_wall10 points·18 days ago

The VendorInvestigate result being close to my own HPLC is the signal, not the absolute number. Both are right.

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u/phase_two_pete8 points·18 days ago

axis labels included, always

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