An abundance trace displays the fraction of the signal intensity at a particular m/z value that the deconvolution algorithm associates with a specific component.
An abundance calculation effectively discards any portions of signal intensity arising from dimers (or other multimers), half-antibodies, or other components that might share m/z values with the component. You can use abundance traces to quantitatively examine how the relative abundances of different components vary with retention time (RT).
In the intact mass analysis workflow, the BioPharma Finder application generates abundance traces using the sliding windows deconvolution. To generate abundance traces for each component in your analysis, select a processing method with either the Xtract or ReSpect algorithm and the sliding windows method deconvolution method.
After you process your experiment, you can view the abundance trace for a selected component in your analysis in the Chromatogram pane on the Process and Review page. See View the chromatograms.