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A Understanding the ChromAlign Process<br />

ChromAlign First Level Alignment<br />

ChromAlign First Level Alignment<br />

Figure 18 shows sample results from the first level ChromAlign process. Some of the major<br />

peaks in the red trace are now aligned with respect to the control sample (for example, see the<br />

peaks at around 35 minutes). <strong>SIEVE</strong> supports comparing 50 chromatograms to another 50<br />

chromatograms, totaling 100 raw data files. <strong>SIEVE</strong> aligns all chromatograms to the first<br />

control file that you chose when originally selecting control and sample files.<br />

Figure 18. ChromAlign first level processing<br />

Abundance<br />

0 50000 100000 150000 200000<br />

0 20 40<br />

Time (Min)<br />

60 80<br />

The following problems can complicate the alignment:<br />

• Both linear and non-linear shifts in the time axis<br />

• Variations in the intensity<br />

• Dynamic-range challenge when aligning low abundance ions in the presence of high<br />

abundance ions<br />

Note Choose a feature-rich chromatographic surface (a chromatogram with good<br />

signal-to-noise ratio) to achieve optimal alignments.<br />

Figure 18 shows the alignment of two chromatographic runs of a digested nine-protein<br />

mixture: horse myoglobin, bovine serum albumin, chicken egg lysozyme, chicken egg<br />

ovalbumin, bovine carbonic anhydrase, bovine ß-casein, horse cytochrome C, bovine<br />

α-lactalbumin, and rabbit glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.<br />

30 <strong>SIEVE</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> Thermo Fisher

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