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ArticlePloS one2018

HappyTools: A software for high-throughput HPLC data processing and quantitation.

Bas Cornelis Jansen, Lise Hafkenscheid, Albert Bondt, Richard Andrew Gardner, Jenifer Lynn Hendel, Manfred Wuhrer, Daniel Ian Richard Spencer

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Bas Cornelis JansenResearch & Development, Ludger Limited., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8617-0980
Lise HafkenscheidDepartment of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
Albert BondtDepartment of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
Richard Andrew GardnerResearch & Development, Ludger Limited., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Jenifer Lynn HendelResearch & Development, Ludger Limited., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Manfred WuhrerCenter for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
Daniel Ian Richard SpencerResearch & Development, Ludger Limited., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is widely used for absolute quantitation. The advent of new columns and HPLC technology has enabled higher sample throughput, and hence, larger scale studies that perform quantitation on different sample types (e.g. healthy controls vs. patients with rheumatoid arthritis) using HPLC are becoming feasible. However, there remains a lack of methods that can analyse the increased number of HPLC samples. To address this in part, the modular toolkit HappyTools has been developed for the high-throughput targeted quantitation of HPLC measurements. HappyTools enables the user to create an automated workflow that includes retention time (tr) calibration, data extraction and the calculation of several quality criteria for data curation. HappyTools has been tested on a biopharmaceutical standard and previously published clinical samples. The results show comparable accuracy between HappyTools, Waters Empower and ThermoFisher Chromeleon. However, HappyTools offered superior precision and throughput when compared with Waters Empower and ThermoFisher Chromeleon. HappyTools is released under the Apache 2.0 license, both the source code and a Windows binary can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/Tarskin/HappyTools.

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Data AnalysisSoftwareChromatography, High Pressure LiquidHumansWorkflow

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PMID29979768
PMCPMC6034860

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