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Comprises the proceedings of the Fourth Texas Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, held at Texas A & M University, April 1988. Twenty-five papers, presented by an international gathering of mass spectroscopists and bioscientists, reveal the state of the art in the application of mass spectrometry to the life sciences. Discussed are instruments that are sensitive to femtomoles, how mass spectrometry can further peptide mapping, monitoring peptide synthesis, peptide sequencing, and much more.