{"id":233220,"date":"2026-03-13T03:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-much-do-nontargeted-analyses-really-see-a-model-maps-chemical-blind-spots"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:40:49","slug":"how-much-do-nontargeted-analyses-really-see-a-model-maps-chemical-blind-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-much-do-nontargeted-analyses-really-see-a-model-maps-chemical-blind-spots","title":{"rendered":"How much do nontargeted analyses really see? A model maps chemical blind spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-much-do-nontargeted-analyses-really-see-a-model-maps-chemical-blind-spots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in Analytical Chemistry, researchers from the University of Amsterdam\u2019s Van \u2018t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) reveal a sobering reality regarding nontargeted chemical analysis. Although widely used for screening the environment for chemicals, this concept isn\u2019t nearly as broad as its name suggests, leaving massive blind spots in the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in Analytical Chemistry, researchers from the University of Amsterdam\u2019s Van \u2018t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) reveal a sobering reality regarding nontargeted chemical analysis. Although widely used for screening the environment for chemicals, this concept isn\u2019t nearly as broad as its name suggests, leaving massive blind spots in the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}