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ArticleJournal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences2025

PeakClimber: A software tool for the accurate quantification of complex HPLC chromatograms.

Joshua T Derrick, Pragney Deme, Norman J Haughey, Steven A Farber, William B Ludington

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Article in Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Joshua T DerrickDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Pragney DemeDepartment of Neurology, JHMI, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Norman J HaugheyDepartment of Neurology, JHMI, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Steven A FarberDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: sfarber3@jh.edu.
William B LudingtonDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: will.ludington@gmail.com.

Funding

Identifying genes required for digestive physiology and lipid metabolismR01DK093399 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI STEVEN A FARBER, John F Rawls · 2013 to 2026
$7.6M
Cellular and Molecular BiologyT32GM141804 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI John Kim · 2021 to 2026
$5.1M
Host mechanisms of gut colonization by commensal bacteria that affect lifespanR01DK128454 · NIDDK · CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON, D.C. · PI LUDINGTON, WILLIAM BASIL · 2022 to 2024
$1.2M
Microbial mediation of lipid absorption in DrosophilaF31DK139752 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Joshua Derrick · 2025 to 2026
$100k
NIDDK NIH HHS F31 DK139752NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK093399NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK128454NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM141804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a common medium-throughput technique to quantify the components of complex mixtures like those typically obtained from biological tissue extracts. However, analysis of HPLC data from multianalyte samples is hampered by a lack of tools to accurately determine the precise analyte quantities on a level of precision equivalent to mass spectrometry approaches. To address this problem, we developed a tool we call PeakClimber that uses a sum of bidirectional exponentially modified Gaussian (BEMG) functions to accurately deconvolve overlapping, multianalyte peaks in HPLC traces. Here we show that HPLC peaks are well-fit by a BEMG function, that PeakClimber more accurately quantifies known peak areas than standard industry software and other open-source software packages for HPLC, and that PeakClimber accurately quantifies differences in triglyceride abundances between colonized and germ-free fruit flies.

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SoftwareAnimalsChromatography, High Pressure LiquidReproducibility of ResultsTriglyceridesTriglyceridesAlgorithmBidirectionaldrosophilaExponentially modified GaussianFatty acidsHPLCLipidsSoftware

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PMID40652627
PMCPMC12357772

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