Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC × GC-MS) has great potential for analyses of complicated mixtures and sample matrices, due to its separation power and possible high resolution. The second component of the measurement results, the mass spectra, is reproducible. However, the reproducibility of two-dimensional chromatography is affected by many factors and makes the evaluation of long-term experiments or cross-laboratory collaborations complicated. This paper presents a new open-source data alignment tool to tackle the problem of retention time shifts - with 5 different algorithms implemented: BiPACE 2D, DISCO, MSort, PAM, and TNT-DA, along with Pearson's correlation and dot product as optional methods for mass spectra comparison. The implemented data alignment algorithms and their variations were tested on real samples to demonstrate the functionality of the presented tool. The suitability of each implemented algorithm for significantly/non-significantly shifted data was discussed on the basis of the results obtained. For the evaluation of the "goodness" of the alignment, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test values were calculated, and comparison graphs were generated. The DA_2DChrom is available online with its documentation, fully open-sourced, and the user can use the tool without the need of uploading their data to external third-party servers.

Department of Analytical Chemistry University of Chemistry and Technology Prague Prague Czech Republic

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