Meanwhile here are some links to background information on the instrument and what it can do, and to a (small) selection of mass spectrometry sites.

[Perseptive Biosystems] (manufacturers of MALDI machine at CSL)

• Voyager MALDI Fact sheet (includes "How Does MALDI-TOF Work?")
• Voyager-DE MALDI - Overview
• Ladder Sequencing of Peptides
• Peptide Fragmentation Studies by MALDI-TOF Biospectrometry

[Mass Spectrometry Resources]

• UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility (UCSF-MSF)
• UCSF-MSF - In-gel digestion procedure
• UCSF-MSF - ProteinProspector
• EMBL Mass Spectrometry Page
• Matsudaira Lab - Identification of proteins by mass spectrometry
• The PROWL Environment (Protein MS Info)

[Proteomics Websites]

• ExPASy - Tools