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Frédéric Begnaud1, Alain Chaintreau2

  • 1Firmenich SA, Corporate R&D Division, Route des Jeunes 1, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland frederic.begnaud@firmenich.com.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|September 21, 2016
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good practicesidentification pointsmass spectrometrymulti-analytequantificationvalidation

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