I would also wonder whether cultures are compatible with mass spec, and what the bottleneck is on measurement. Culturing for optical microscopy seems like you

I would also wonder whether cultures are compatible with mass spec, and what the bottleneck is on measurement. Culturing for optical microscopy seems like you need 1-10 DAYS before you get enough of a colony going to identify things, assuming you can successfully culture them at all. What if you plopped your culture down on the fermenter and gave it three hours (very cheap! Parallelizable!), then threw it in the mass spec? Would that shorten mass spec measurement time?