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Confusion regarding multiple reaction monitoring deprecation

Please note that the term multiple reaction monitoring is not deprecated in the IUPAC Standard definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry. There is some confusion regarding this fact due to the seven years that elapsed between the posting of the unreviewed 2006 draft of the document (still linked as "provisional recommendations" on the IUPAC website) and the publication of the peer reviewed document in 2013. Comments from reviewers during the peer review process led to a revision of the definition indicated on the multiple reaction monitoring page of this wiki. In at least one publication between 2006 and 2012, the draft definition was cited (e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/msb.2008.61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201200042, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0mb00159g, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pmic.200800577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201200042), inadvertently leading to further confusion. Again, please note that the IUPAC recommendation for multiple reaction monitoring is the one indicated in http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06.