The phrase "array of fragments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection or variety of disjointed or incomplete pieces, often in a context related to data, art, or literature.
Example: "The artist's latest exhibition featured an array of fragments that challenged the viewer's perception of reality."
Alternatives: "collection of pieces" or "variety of segments".
Now that available bioinformatic platforms can accommodate high throughput top down MS/MS analyses that result in a multitude of ion types, such as the diverse array of fragments that arise from UVPD, the potential for hybrid fragmentation of intact proteins is feasible even for complex mixtures.
There's nothing wrong with a collage or array of fragments; a list is no worse a way to make a movie than any other.
To release the DNA construct containing the array of fragments from the beads, the samples were heated at 60°C for 10 min with sodium dodecyl sulphate (final concentration, 0.1%), and the supernatant was collected.
After the final donor DNA fragments, which included vector sequences, were joined to the construct that contained the array of fragments, the ligation product (the construct) was thereby released from the beads via digestion with a rare-cut meganuclease; the freed linear construct was circularized via an intra-molecular ligation.
UVPD provided a richer array of fragment ions (C C, C N, and C O bond cleavages), which facilitated differentiation of the lipid A species in the mixture.
Ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) provided the richest array of fragment ions for elucidation of lipid A structures from E. coli, V. cholerae, and P. aeruginosa.
UVPD as a high-energy MS/MS technique generated a wider array of fragment ions, as noted in our earlier studies of singly charged lipids.
In contrast, UVPD results in a much more diverse array of fragment ions, with broad distributions of cleavage sites for both singly and doubly charged ions.
UVPD generated the most diverse array of fragment ion types arising from a greater number of observed cleavage sites for V. cholerae and P. aeruginosa (parts C and F of Figure 4, respectively).
The most diverse array of fragment ions was obtained from the ETUVPD hybrid method, an outcome that proved particularly beneficial for specific localization of modifications for which fragmentation was suppressed for other activation methods.
Optimizing the utility of the diverse fragmentation pathways for protein identification and characterization has required search algorithms to accommodate an array of fragment ion types (a, a+1, b, c, x, x+1, y, y 1, and z), and with this multiplicity comes a penalty due to the concomitant increase in fragment ion search space.
