New facility users need to have basic knowledge of proteomics before using the instruments. The following articles are recommended as introduction:

• Leitner A, Aebersold R., SnapShot: mass spectrometry for protein and proteome analyses. Cell. 2013 Jul 3;154(1):252-252.e1. [Pubmed]
• Zhang Y, Fonslow BR, Shan B, Baek MC, Yates JR 3rd., Protein analysis by shotgun/bottom-up proteomics. Chem Rev. 2013 Apr 10;113(4):2343-94.[Pubmed]
• Picotti P, Bodenmiller B, Aebersold R., Proteomics meets the scientific method. Nat Methods. 2013 Jan;10(1):24-7. [Pubmed]
• Lange V, Picotti P, Domon B, Aebersold R., Selected reaction monitoring quantitative proteomics: a tutorial. Mol Syst Biol. 2008;4:222.[Pubmed]
• Steen H, Mann M., The ABC’s (and XYZ’s) of peptide sequencing. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2004 Sep;5(9):699-711. [Pubmed]
• Aebersold R, Mann M., Mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature. 2003 Mar 13;422(6928):198-207.[Pubmed]