title: Monitoring substrate and products in a bioprocess with FTIR spectroscopy coupled to artificial neural networks enhanced with a genetic-algorithm-based method for wavelength selection.
abstract: An experiment was developed as a simple alternative to existing analytical methods for the simultaneous quantitation of glucose (substrate) and glucuronic acid (main product) in the bioprocesses Kombucha by using FTIR spectroscopy coupled to multivariate calibration (partial least-squares, PLS-1 and artificial neural networks, ANNs). Wavelength selection through a novel ranked regions genetic algorithm (RRGA) was used to enhance the predictive ability of the chemometric models. Acceptable results were obtained by using the ANNs models considering the complexity of the sample and the speediness and simplicity of the method. The accuracy on the glucuronic acid determination was calculated by analysing spiked real fermentation samples (recoveries ca. 115%).
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Control de Calidad de Medicamentos, Cátedra de Química Analítica I, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina.
authors.forename: Vanina G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Franco
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Perín
authors.forename: Víctor E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Mantovani
authors.forename: Héctor C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Goicoechea