SCIEX Launches New X500B QTOF Mass Spectrometry System for Standardized Biotherapeutic Characterization

 SCIEX Launches New X500B QTOF Mass Spectrometry System for
Standardized Biotherapeutic Characterization

Newest X500 Mass Spec System is the first true benchtop, accurate mass system for simple,
robust and rapid biologics characterization during drug development

 

Singapore – February 09, 2016 – SCIEX,
a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today
announced their latest solution in the X-Series Quadrupole Time of
Flight (QTOF) mass spectrometry (MS) platform. The newest X-Series
model, the X500B QTOF System, brings
simplicity, high-performance, and robustness for biotherapeutic
analyses to one of the most compact mass spectrometry system MS system
footprints on the market. The new user-friendly SCIEX OS Software interface and powerful BioPharmaViewTM 2.0 processing software comprise
an unmatched integrated LC-MS solution for mass spec experts, or
novices, performing standard biotherapeutic characterization.

The
X500R QTOF System emerged in 2015 as the first LC-MS solution designed
specifically for routine food, environmental and forensic testing, and
introduced an entirely new industrial design, fully-loaded with easy to
use software, methods and libraries, custom-designed for targeted
customer applications. The X500R QTOF has since won awards and achieved
accolades by industry leading laboratories and key opinion leaders.

Like
the X500R, the X500B QTOF System was specifically developed to deliver
ease-of-use for high resolution standardized workflows, for
biotherapeutic developers, who are required to fully characterize
biologic products in large numbers during the development process. Many
MS-based workflows require users to be mass spectrometry system experts
and they must perform complicated data processing and manual
calculations. The workflows can be complex to setup and involve
intensive and sometimes confusing software. The X500B QTOF offers the
robust and streamlined, quality instrumentation SCIEX is known for, with
the intuitive SCIEX OS user interface for simplified workflow setup.

To
simplify complex data processing the X500B QTOF System comes with
BioPharmaView Software 2.0, enabling scientists to generate better
information, faster. BioPharmaView Mass Spec Software also offers the ability to interpret SWATH® 2.0
data independent acquisition on the X500B QTOF System. SWATH
acquisition allows for comprehensive peptide mapping data to be acquired
in a single injection, with high-resolution MS and MSMS data for every
peptide in the sample. This strategy results in the ability to detect
important low abundance peptides and post-translational modifications
that may be missed with other approaches. With the X500B QTOF System, all users can achieve expert level results in their biotherapeutic characterization workflows.

“Mass spec users have been asking for systems that are purpose built for their application, and SCIEX has listened,” said Farzana Azam, Senior Director, Pharmaceutical/CRO Business at SCIEX.
“The introduction of X500B system brings a new level of simplicity,
robustness and integration to simplify the complex world of biologics
characterization. The combination of this innovative true benchtop QTOF
system and software like SCIEX OS, and unique SWATH Acquisition, creates
the complete easy-to-use and streamlined solution for standard biologic
analyses.”

SCIEX will be presenting the X500B at the CASSS WCBP 21st Symposium, January 24 – 26, 2017.

Learn more about the X500B from SCIEX at sciex.com/X500B and sciex.com/OS