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Author Archives: Kermit Murray
eTBlast MEDLINE Search Interface
eTBlast is a MEDLINE search front-end developed by the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas. It will chew through a Texas-sized paragraph of text and return (after a few minutes) a scored list of related articles found on MEDLINE. For example, the abstract of Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2004 ;18;1095 returned this page …
Affymetrix Licenses Caliper GeneChip
PRNewswire via Bioinfo Online
Mass Spectrometry of Tears
From Sciencedaily.com (ACS Press Release): “Researchers in Japan are developing a faster, more accurate diagnostic test for Sj√ɬ∂gren’s syndrome, an incurable autoimmune disorder characterized by chronically dry eyes and dry mouth. The noninvasive test, which analyzes multiple protein biomarkers in the tears using highly sensitive mass spectrometry, shows promise in early clinical studies as the …
Mass Spectrometry Newsfeeds
I installed a small program called “Zort” that uses the MagpieRSS newsfeed parser to turn newsfeeds into a web page. The mass spectrometry “Zort” page is here.
International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AMS-10, the 10th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry will be held in Berkeley, California, September 5-10, 2005.
FAIMS Tutorial
The faims.com website has a detailed and well-referenced tutorial on High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
Slashdot: Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era
A review of Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era by Jeff Augen.
Device For Weighing Individual Molecules
PhysOrg: “Physicists at the California Institute of Technology have created the first nanodevices capable of weighing individual biological molecules. This technology may lead to new forms of molecular identification that are cheaper and faster than existing methods, as well as revolutionary new instruments for proteomics.“
7th International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in the Health and Life Sciences
San Francisco, August 21-25, 2005.
Canadians Debate MS/MS Newborn Screening
Extending tests beyond congenital hypothyroidism and PKU suggested.
Bruker/Agilent Extend Trap Collaboration
“The amended ITMS collaboration agreement extends the ion trap development cooperation, the continued supply of mass spectrometry parts and components from Agilent to Bruker Daltonics, and the end-product manufacturing by Bruker Daltonics of each company’s respective ITMS product lines. The agreement facilitates the introduction of each company’s ion trap HCT Ultra and XCT Ultra mass …
Murray’s Mass Spectrometry Page: Resources
My 8 year-old MS page mirrored at the The Institute of Earth Sciences ‘Jaume Almera’in Barcelona.
ACS to Allow Free Access to Journal Articles One Year After Publication
See press releases “American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles: Conditions set for free availability one year after publication“, “American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access” and “American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of NIH-funded research articles” in response to “Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded …
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DART Mass Spec
An article on JEOL’s new direct analysis in real-time MS technique in C&E; News.
International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Prague 2006
Home page for the 17th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 26 through September 1, 2006.
EJMS On-line Symposium
The European Journal of Mass Spectrometry has an on-line symposium for discussion of mechanisms of MALDI and other desorption/ionization techniques.
Agilent LC/MS Chip
More of the lab moves onto the chip.
Agilent Introduces Dual ESI/APCI Source
Agilent has rolled out a simultaneous ESI/APCI ion source for the LC/MSD.
Metabolomics Collaboration
Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX and BIOCRATES announced a metabolomics collaboration today.