Talk:Fast protein liquid chromatography

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This page needs to be rewritten[edit]

Needs serious cleanup. Schavery (talk) 16:09, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FPLC might need to disambiguate to Franklin Pierce Law Center, but I personally don't think so. I'm leaving it here as a suggestion though. --Christopherlin 22:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree this needs a major cleanup. For a start, one could move the third paragraph (starting with "FPLC was developed and marketed..." up after the first sentence. The rest of the introduction should be shortened. The "optimizing purification" section looks like it was written with the Pharmacia (GE, ABP, you know) Handbook beside the keyboard - it's not that bad, but it is not in the style and level of detail for Wikipedia.--FrankKuester (talk) 14:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Which one is it?[edit]

The article is called fast protein liquid chromatography but on top of the table on the right hand side says fast performance liquid chromatography. We were discussing this but wikipedia is inconclusive here. Can anybody confirm one or the other? Carnelain (talk) 10:08, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GE Life Sciences, which is now the main manufacturer, uses "FPLC" as a trademark without actually spelling it out.

Pharmacia originally said it meant "fast performance liquid chromatography" to contrast to "high performance liquid chromatography" (HPLC). (Although HPLC originally meant "high pressure liquid chromatography".) But "fast performance" sounded so silly in English (maybe its better in Swedish) that everyone now says it means "fast protein", which can reasonably be taken as the current meaning. It is fast, and it is used almost exclusively for proteins or even larger aggregates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danwoodard (talk • contribs) 19:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictory[edit]

The first paragraph here says FPLC is basically Ion Exchange, then goes on to list four types of HPLC. What is the real difference between the two? --Karuna8 (talk) 00:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]