Advion and Agilent to Co-market Mass Spec Technology
Advion Biosystems Inc. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that they have signed a co-marketing agreement to promote the Advion TriVersa NanoMate system with Agilent mass spectrometers. The TriVersa NanoMate is an automated fraction collection and nanoelectrospray system that connects to the inlet of a mass spectrometer. It combines the benefits of capillary-scale liquid chromatography (LC) with simultaneous fraction collection and subsequent chip-based infusion of the LC fractions in one system to increase the performance and automation of a mass spectrometer.
According to Agilent the NanoMate differs from their 1200 Series HPLC-Chips in that it operates at capillary and micro flow rates need for fraction collection, enabling collection of individual peaks for highly sensitive infusion MS analysis. The 1200 Series provides on-line LC/MS at nanoflow rates that are well-suited to applications where the amount of sample available is limited.
The two companies have co-developed a bracket to interface the TriVersa NanoMate and Agilent mass spectrometer systems to provide life science users with the power of automated sample infusion on the Agilent family of LC/MS systems.
Ken Miller, a global senior marketing manager for Mass Spectrometry at Agilent said the systems will be “very complimentaryâ€. He said in a statement “The TriVersa system offers some added capabilities such as fraction collection of peaks of interest and should prove to be very useful for protein characterization and biomarker discovery experiments.â€
Under the agreement, the companies will co-market, with each company responsible for its individual products. Advion will sell and service the NanoMate along with the bracket to interface it to Agilent mass spectrometers. Financial details of the deal were not released.
