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Main stages of mass spectrometry profiling. This method can screen hundreds to thousands of proteins or small molecules in one run, depending on whether or not a pre-fractionation step is applied. In the case of proteomics, the method requires enzymatic digestion of the proteins to produce smaller manageable peptides. This step is omitted in metabolomics approaches since the analytes in question are already of a manageable size.
