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Andrei Barcaru1, Gabriel Vivó-Truyols1
1Analytical Chemistry Group, van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
A new method for comparison of GCxGC-MS is proposed. The method is aimed at spotting the differences between two GCxGC-MS injections, in order to highlight the differences between two samples, in order to flag differences in composition, or to spot compounds only present in one of the samples. The method is based on application of the Jensen-Shannon divergence (JS) analysis combined with Bayesian hypothesis testing. In order to make the method robust against misalignment in both time dimensions, a moving-window approach is proposed. Using a Bayesian framework, we provide a probabilistic visual map (i.e., log likelihood ratio map) of the significant differences between two data sets consequently excluding the deterministic (i.e., "yes" or "no") decision. We proved this approach to be a versatile tool in GCxGC-MS data analysis, especially when the differences are embedded inside a complex matrix. We tested the approach to spot contamination of diesel samples.
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