In contradistinction to data-dependent acquisition (DDA), where the instrument selects specific ions to fragment based on their intensity or abundance, DIA captures all of the fragment ions within a predetermined m/z range in a methodical and impartial fashion.
In contrast to DIA, the mass spectrometer in DDA mode selects only certain peptides and then fragments them, ideally one at a time. While DIA is the superior acquisition method for quantitative goals, DDA is the preferred method for library generation and database searches due to its near peptide-specific MS2 spectra.
There are currently two broad approaches toward generating bottom-up or “ shotgun ” MS proteomic data: data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and data-independent acquisition (DIA). 1 In tandem MS (MS/MS), the DDA approach only puts forward certain peptides generated during the first cycle of MS for fragmentation during the second cycle, while with the DIA approach, all peptides generated during the first MS cycle can be fragmented...
Data-
independent acquisition (DIA) is a relatively new approach to acquisition in Mass Spectrometry (MS). Traditional
data-
dependent acquisition (DDA) takes only a selection of peptide signals forward for fragmentation, and then matches them to a pre-defined database. In contrast, DIA fragments every single peptide in a sample.Data-dependent acquisition (DDA) mode, also known as Information Dependent Acquisition mode (IDA), is the mode of data collection in tandem mass spectrometry. An alternative toDDA is
DIA which is the shortened form of “data independent acquisition”. In DDA mode, all peptides within a certain mass range are fragmented in tandem mass spectrometry.