Application of affinity capillary electrophoresis for charge heterogeneity profiling of biopharmaceuticals

Charge heterogeneity profiling is important for the quality control (QC) of biopharmaceuticals. Because of the increasing complexity of these therapeutic entities [1], the development of alternative analytical techniques is needed. In this work, flow‐through partial‐filling affinity capillary electrophoresis (FTPFACE) has been established as a method for the analysis of a mixture of two similar monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The addition of a specific ligand results in the complexation of one mAb in the co‐formulation, thus changing its migration time in the electric field. This allows the characterization of the charged variants of the non‐shifted mAb without interferences. Adsorption of proteins to the inner capillary wall has been circumvented by rinsing with guanidine hydrochloride before each injection. The presented FTPFACE approach requires only very small amounts of ligands and provides complete comparability with a standard CZE of a single mAb.     

BS-RNA: An efficient mapping and annotation tool for RNA bisulfite sequencing data

Cytosine methylation is one of the most important RNA epigenetic modifications. With the development of experimental technology, scientists attach more importance to RNA cytosine methylation and find bisulfite sequencing is an effective experimental method for RNA cytosine methylation study. However, there are only a few tools can directly deal with RNA bisulfite sequencing data efficiently. Herein, we developed a specialized tool BS-RNA, which can analyze cytosine methylation of RNA based on bisulfite sequencing data and support both paired-end and single-end sequencing reads from directional bisulfite libraries. For paired-end reads, simply removing the biased positions from the 5′ end may result in “dovetailing” reads, where one or both reads seem to extend past the start of the mate read. BS-RNA could map “dovetailing” reads successfully. The annotation result of BS-RNA is exported in BED (.bed) format, including locations, sequence context types (CG/CHG/CHH, H = A, T, or C), reference sequencing depths, cytosine sequencing depths, and methylation levels of covered cytosine sites on both Watson and Crick strands. BS-RNA is an efficient, specialized and highly automated mapping and annotation tool for RNA bisulfite sequencing data. It performs better than the existing program in terms of accuracy and efficiency. BS-RNA is developed by Perl language and the source code of this tool is freely available from the website: http://bs-rna.big.ac.cn.     

现代分析检测技术在润滑油氧化中的应用

介绍了近20年来用于润滑油氧化测试中分析检测技术的进展情况,包括高效液相色谱、气相色谱、凝胶渗透色谱、热分析、红外光谱、核磁共振、化学发光及电化学技术,并讨论了今后发展的方向。     

Requirements vs acceptability in proficiency testing schemes and other interlaboratory comparisons

Many laboratories take part in proficiency testing schemes, external quality assessment programmes and other interlaboratory comparisons. These have many similarities but also important differences in their modus operandi and evaluation of performance of participating laboratories. This paper attempts to highlight both the similarities and differences. It also puts particular emphasis on requirements called ”target values for uncertainty” and their meaning. Received: 24 January 2001 Accepted: 25 January 2001     

软件技术在近红外光谱定量分析中的应用

为了更好地运用化学计量学方法提高近红外光谱定量分析的质量,全面研究了相关算法技术与软件工具的应用。根据近红外光谱定量分析的一般流程,依次探讨了光谱数据预处理、异常样本检测、样本集划分、波长选择、模型建立及其参数优化的常用算法,并给出了其中各种主流算法的基本步骤;然后介绍了OMNIC、OPUS、Origin、The Unscrambler X和MATLAB等软件工具的功能特点和主要用途,可为相关技术研究和分析检测工作提供参考。     

在结构化学教学中增设量子化学计算实验课的探索

结构化学是化学专业本科生的主干核心课程,对培养高水平人才具有重要作用。立足于学生兴趣和课程特点,本文提出在结构化学教学中增设量子化学计算实验课。紧扣教学大纲重难点,设计制作了4个基础实验,阐述了内容及实施细节。该改革让学生以计算机为仪器、应用结构化学知识来解决和理解化学问题,提升了学习兴趣和教学效果。     

Multivariate analysis of non-homogeneous peaks in liquid chromatography

Summary The effects of concentration, separation and spectral similarity as factors influencing the accuracy of iterative target testing factor analysis (ITT-FA) are investigated for three component systems by the application of analysis of variance (ANOVAR). ANOVAR is applied over a range of peak separations to map the changing effects of the three factors with increasing overlap. Two error responses were measured and analysed, (a) Relative cluster error (RCE) a measure of the error over all peaks in a cluster and (b) Relative peak error (RPE) the error of an individual peak. Multicomponent analysis (MCA) a method requiringa priori spectral information, is used as a referee method for ITT-FA.     

巧用智能手机测定抗贫血药物中铁的含量

铁离子和硫氰化钾反应生成稳定的血红色络合物硫氰化铁,用智能手机拍摄所得图像的颜色反映在图像的RGB值上。随着该溶液浓度的增大,溶液颜色逐渐加深,反映在拍摄的图像中颜色的RGB值也在变化,并且得出该溶液颜色的R值与溶液的浓度成线性关系。结果显示,用该实验方法测得的抗贫血药物中铁的含量与用紫外分光光度法测得同一药品中铁的含量相比误差为5%;并且该实验方法在中学的化学实验课中很容易实现,避免了学生用目视比色法测量抗贫血药物中铁的含量时因标准溶液的色阶选择不合适而导致实验的失败。