Mass spectrometry professionals are in short supply industry-wide. Undergraduate teaching has bottlenecks: limited instrumentation, weak qualitative skills and abstract theoretical concepts. We report an innovative pedagogy coupling conventional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) with the MassWorksTM software suite. A 14-component fragrance standard mixture was employed to design an experiment spanning the entire workflow separation, detection, exact-mass measurement, isotopic-pattern matching, molecular-formula assignment, structural elucidation. By exploiting the software’s dual-calibration algorithms for exact-mass and isotopic-profile refinement, the mass accuracy and qualitative reliability of GC-low resolution MS data were dramatically enhanced. The practical results show that this method improves the quality accuracy of MS data by 100 times, controls the mass deviation within |Δm|≤10 mDa, achieves an accuracy of over 98% in isotope spectra, and provides accurate and reliable qualitative results. The teaching effect is significant. Through the closed-loop training of theoretical analysis, software application, and practical verification, students’ scientific research thinking, data analysis ability, and innovative ability to solve complex problems have been effectively improved. This provides a replicable and scalable effective paradigm for improving the quality of instrument analysis teaching under limited resource conditions.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |