Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Morphological and MALDI-TOF MS identification of freshwater snails, including intermediate hosts of schistosomes in Gabon
doi: 10.1101/2025.07.14.664644
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A)- Representative MALDITOF MS profile of Gyraulus costulatus (a, b, c), Bulinus truncatus (d, e, f), and Bulinus forskalii (g, h, i), obtained with the FlexAnalysis v.3.3 software. (B)- Hierarchical clustering dendrogram of Bulinus truncatus , Gyraulus costulatus , Bulinus forskalii , obtained from the software Biotyper v.3.0. (C)- Graphical representation (PCA), determining the classification of the LSV of the species present (blue colour = Gyraulus costulatus , red colour = Bulinus forskalii , green colour = Bulinus truncatus ), using the software ClinProTools v.2.2.
Article Snippet: MS spectra obtained from snail foot tissues were visualized using FlexAnalysis v.3.3 (Bruker Daltonics, Germany), and subsequently exported to ClinProTools v.2.2 and MALDI-Biotyper v.3.0 (Bruker Daltonics, Germany) for further processing, including spectral smoothing, baseline subtraction, and intensity normalization (6,22).
Techniques: Software