MS instruments

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is today based on high-resolution instruments with high mass accuracy.

electrospray ion source on MS instrument

This development started around a decade ago and since then, advances in Orbitrap and QTOF instrumentation have occured at a rapid pace.

Over a five year period commencing in 2020, NAPI began upgrading the instrumentation at its various nodes with next generation high-resolution MS-instruments. We will install a range of different instruments that comply with the different expertise areas at each node. NAPI thereby ensures that researchers in Norway always have access to cutting-edge instrumentation that is well-suited to the specific needs of individual projects.

  • timsTOF Pro2

    The timsTOF Pro2 instrument from Bruker is now installed at the NAPI core facility Proteomics and Modomics Experimental Core Facility (PROMEC) at NTNU in Trondheim. In 2023, a second timsTOF Pro2 instrument was installed at the Proteomics Core Facility at the Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital (PCF-OUS).

  • timsTOF fleX

    A Bruker timsTOF fleX instrument, which combines ESI and MALDI imaging, was installed in January 2021 at the Proteomics Core Facility at the Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital (PCF-OUS).

  • timsTOF Pro

    The timsTOF Pro instrument from Bruker is now installed at the NAPI core facilities at the Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). In September 2023, a timsTOF Pro2 instrument was installed at the Proteomics Core Facility at the Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital (PCF-OUS).

  • Orbitrap Exploris

    The Tromsø University Proteomics Platform has now installed a new Orbitrap Exploris from Thermo Scientific.

  • Orbitrap Eclipse

    The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Eclipse arrived at the Proteomics Unit at the University of Bergen (PROBE) in November 2020.