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To provide chemical information, most imaging techniques used to study the nervous system require preselection and labeling of the peptides of interest; however, mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) detects analytes across a broad mass range without the need to target a specific analyte. When used with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), MSI detects analytes in the mass range of neuropeptides. MALDI MSI simultaneously provides spatial and chemical information resulting in images that plot the spatial distributions of neuropeptides over the surface of a thin slice of neural tissue. Here a variety of approaches for neuropeptide characterization are developed. Specifically, several computational approaches are combined with MALDI MSI to create improved approaches that provide spatial distributions and neuropeptide characterizations. After successfully validating these MALDI MSI protocols, the methods are applied to characterize both known and unidentified neuropeptides from neural tissues. The methods are further adapted from tissue analysis to be able to perform tandem MS (MS/MS) imaging on neuronal cultures to enable the study of network formation. In addition, MALDI MSI has been carried out over the timecourse of nervous system regeneration in planarian flatworms resulting in the discovery of two novel neuropeptides that may be involved in planarian regeneration. In addition, several bioinformatic tools are developed to predict final neuropeptide structures and associated masses that can be compared to experimental MSI data in order to make assignments of neuropeptide identities. The integration of computational approaches into the experimental design of MALDI MSI has allowed improved instrument automation and enhanced data acquisition and analysis. 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MALDI MSI simultaneously provides spatial and chemical information resulting in images that plot the spatial distributions of neuropeptides over the surface of a thin slice of neural tissue. Here a variety of approaches for neuropeptide characterization are developed. Specifically, several computational approaches are combined with MALDI MSI to create improved approaches that provide spatial distributions and neuropeptide characterizations. After successfully validating these MALDI MSI protocols, the methods are applied to characterize both known and unidentified neuropeptides from neural tissues. The methods are further adapted from tissue analysis to be able to perform tandem MS (MS/MS) imaging on neuronal cultures to enable the study of network formation. In addition, MALDI MSI has been carried out over the timecourse of nervous system regeneration in planarian flatworms resulting in the discovery of two novel neuropeptides that may be involved in planarian regeneration. In addition, several bioinformatic tools are developed to predict final neuropeptide structures and associated masses that can be compared to experimental MSI data in order to make assignments of neuropeptide identities. The integration of computational approaches into the experimental design of MALDI MSI has allowed improved instrument automation and enhanced data acquisition and analysis. 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