Peptide content
The fraction of total mass that is peptide, %w/w. Distinct from purity, which is a fraction of detected chromatographic area.
Related terms
- Area percent
- Purity expressed as the main peak's integrated area divided by the total integrated area of all peaks, times 100. A relative quantity. It is not a concentration and not a content.
- Target-compound content
- Total peptide content multiplied by chromatographic purity. The fraction of the vial that is the named compound. The number that determines recovered mass.
see also Peptide content · Recovered mass
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 22 glossary terms beginning with P