User`s guide

How to Use This Guide
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How to Use This Guide
Purpose of this
guide
PerSeptive Biosystems’ Voyager Biospectrometry Workstation
User’s Guide
details the procedures for installing, using,
maintaining, and troubleshooting Voyager
™
Biospectrometry
™
workstations.
Audience This guide is intended for novice and experienced Voyager
workstation users who are analyzing biomolecules.
Structure of this
guide
PerSeptive Biosystems’ Voyager Biospectrometry Workstation
User’s Guide
is divided into chapters. Each chapter page is
marked with a tab and a header to help you locate information
within the chapter.
The table below describes the material covered in each
chapter.
Chapter 1, Introducing the
Voyager™ Biospectrometry™
Workstations
Describes the parts of the system and software,
and gives background information on MALDI-TOF
and Delayed Extraction technology.
Chapter 2, Installing the
Voyager™ Biospectrometry™
Workstations
Provides procedures for installing the system,
attaching components (such as video monitor and
oscilloscope), installing the software, starting up
and shutting down.
Chapter 3, Preparing Samples Describes how to prepare matrix and sample, how
to load sample on sample plates, and how to load
plates in the mass spectrometer.
Chapter 4, Voyager
Instrument Control Panel
Basics
Describes method parameters and how to create a
method for manual and autosampler mode.
Describes optimizing methods in Delayed
Extraction and Continuous Extraction modes.
Chapter 5, Optimizing
Instrument Settings
Gives instructions for acquiring spectra, using the
Monitor window, using the oscilloscope, and
optimizing acquisition settings.