Quality control analysis.

(A) Monitoring of lock mass offset and lock mass ion intensity as function of sample injection. Notice that the lock mass and internal standard TAG 17:1/17:1/17:1 is not detected in injection 07 and 08. Manual inspection of FT MS spectra revealed that the particular sample had not been spiked with internal standards. (B) Assessing the specificity of the PI species profile and intensity across all samples from wild-type mice and the negative control blank samples. Note that in the negative control blank sample (red) a low abundant background ion is detected and falsely identified as PI 40:3. Dubious lipid species can be removed using background subtraction and filtering during subsequent processing in Orange.