deisotoping

English

Etymology

de- +‎ isotoping

Noun

deisotoping (uncountable)

1. The removal of complications due to the presence of isotopes (typically in mass spectrometry)
   • 2015 July 14, “Metabolic Profiling of Developing Pear Fruits Reveals Dynamic Variation in Primary and Secondary Metabolites, Including Plant Hormones”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     After alignment, deisotoping, and cutoff of low-intensity peaks (fewer than 500 counts), intensity values of the remaining peaks were divided by those of lidocaine ([M+H]+, m/z 235.1804) and 10-camphorsulfonic acid ([M-H]-, m/z 231.06910) for normalization.