Meanings
nounmonoisotope (plural monoisotopes)
plural monoisotopes
- natural sciencesThe principal (most abundant) isotope of an element
In addition, our tool determines the charge state of a peak by calculating the similarity between the peak shape of monoisotope and the peak shape of the second isotope peak.
2016 January 20, “iMet-Q: A User-Friendly Tool for Label-Free Metabolomics Quantitation Using Dynamic Peak-Width Determination”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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