New Control Software for Ms is Released

Waters Corporation announced today that it has released control software that now makes its ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC) System compatible with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX mass spectrometry products controlled by Analyst® software. In conjunction with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's release of the latest update to Analyst® V1.4.2 LC/MS control software, Waters will now supply and support additional software which provides full support for the ACQUITY UPLC Systems, including Waters nanoACQUITY
UPLC System, on Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's mass spectrometry
platforms.

In August of last year, Waters and Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX
entered into an agreement for Waters to develop control software for
the ACQUITY UPLC System, with support from Applied Biosystems/MDS
SCIEX. The new software from Waters is designed to allow scientists to
combine Waters® UPLC and Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX MS technologies
and operate them on a single data system. This new level of
compatibility is expected to improve laboratory efficiency by giving
scientists what they have been asking for: greatly enhanced
ease-of-use of the combined technologies.

UPLC technology has proven to produce narrower and sharper peaks
versus HPLC, higher signal-to-noise ratios, and shorter run times
all of which contribute to enhanced mass spectrometer performance
bringing laboratories new levels of efficiency. By combining liquid
chromatography with mass spectrometry, scientists are capable of
obtaining much more information from a single analysis than by either
technique alone.