FATES: a flexible analysis toolkit for the exploration of single-particle mass spectrometer data
Single-particle mass spectrometer (SPMS) analysis of aerosols has become increasingly popular since its invention in the 1990s. Today many iterations of commercial and lab-built SPMSs are in use worldwide. However, supporting analysis toolkits for these powerful instruments are outdated, have limite...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques |
| Online Access: | http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/10/1323/2017/amt-10-1323-2017.pdf |
| Summary: | Single-particle mass spectrometer (SPMS) analysis of aerosols has
become increasingly popular since its invention in the 1990s. Today many
iterations of commercial and lab-built SPMSs are in use worldwide. However,
supporting analysis toolkits for these powerful instruments are
outdated, have limited functionality, or are versions that are not available
to the scientific community at large. In an effort to advance this field and
allow better communication and collaboration between scientists, we have
developed FATES (Flexible Analysis Toolkit for the Exploration of SPMS
data), a MATLAB toolkit easily extensible to an array of SPMS designs and
data formats. FATES was developed to minimize the computational demands of
working with large data sets while still allowing easy maintenance,
modification, and utilization by novice programmers. FATES permits
scientists to explore, without constraint, complex SPMS data with simple
scripts in a language popular for scientific numerical analysis. In addition
FATES contains an array of data visualization graphic
user interfaces (GUIs) which can aid both novice
and expert users in calibration of raw data; exploration of the dependence
of mass spectral characteristics on size, time, and peak intensity; and
investigations of clustered data sets. |
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| ISSN: | 1867-1381 1867-8548 |