Jonathan Hunter

Could do something like "positive polarity acquisition"; "negative polarity acquisition"; "alternating polarity acquisition". My feeling is that in the 'alternating' case the 'polarity' part is necessary, otherwise 'alternating acquisition' is...

> I'm happy with acquisition (no mode). Question: can there me a "mixed polarity acquisition" where it's not really alternating, but not purely one or the other? Like the first...

- Updated to 'xxx polarity acquisition' term names. - Added 'mixed polarity acquisition'.

Personally, i like 'mixed polarity' and 'alternating' separate. I think this kind of rapid-switching of polarity is a discrete, well used and marketed functionality of newer mass spectrometers and warrants...

From a metabolomics perspective, true 'alternating' is very commonly used, so I'm hesitant to rename it to something like combination or mixed and I continue to lean towards having the...

> I don't think it would hurt to have the extra mixed term. Likely ProteoWizard would just continue not to use these terms at the file-level whenever it's not practical...

Done! I note the `[PSI-PI]` cross-ref for the alternating term - do we want to make this PSI-MS?