A novel compact mass detection platform for the open access (OA) environment in drug discovery and early development

Highlights • The compact mass detector has proven to be a valuable and reliable mass detection and compound confirmation tool for the open access (OA) environment in the pharmaceutical discovery and development space. • The benefits of the compact mass detector for use in a wide variety of OA applications including standard small molecule analysis, HTS and QC type analyses, as well as biological samples and quantitation studies were demonstrated. • Mass data generated with the compact mass detector were comparable to conventional mass spectrometer data for a multitude of samples run in the OA environment.