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Revisiting: Spike-and-recover accuracy for a peptide assay

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s.cabreraTL29 Apr 2026#1

Revisiting: Spike-and-recover accuracy for a peptide assay — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

I was wrong about Spike-and-recover accuracy in a thread last spring and I would like to correct it publicly rather than quietly.

The error was in the units, which changed the conclusion by an order of magnitude. Setting out the corrected version, and the way I now check for that class of mistake.

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v.klausenTL3Regular11 Jun 2026#2

Validation is compound-specific and matrix-specific. A method validated for one peptide is a starting point for another and not a validated method for it.

Worth checking against a second source before it gets quoted onward.

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e.coelhoTL227 Jul 2026#3

Limits of detection and quantitation: LOD is the lowest concentration that produces a signal above background. LOQ is the lowest concentration at which the method meets precision and accuracy acceptance criteria. Both are determined empirically.

That is my reading. Someone else read the same page differently and was reasonable.

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