Syft Technologies New Zealand introduced aselected ion flow tube mass spectrometer at Pittcon.
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Bruker MALDI-TOF/TOF to Get Smart Beam
Bruker announces smartbeam, dual ESI/MALDI ion source, and high capacity ion trap at Pittcon.
Judge Rules in Favor of Yale in Electrospray Case
The Hartford Courant reports that a federal judge has ruled against John Fenn in an ESI patent dispute. Also in the Yale Daily News, Richmond Times Dispatch, and C&EN;. Fenn has indicated that he will appeal.
Stable Isotope Labeling
More from the ABRF meeting: the silac.org site has information on quantitative proteomics using stable isotope labeled amino acids in cell cultures for quantitative proteomics studies.
Proteome Commons
The new ProteomeCommons.org site has an archive of open source proteomics software and other digital content. Update: some other open source proteomics sites (from the ABRF meeting). Ensembl Genome Browser The Global Proteome Machine Organization Human Proteome Reference Database Open Mass Spectrometry Search Algorithm
Blogging Mass Spectrometry
It has been a while since I checked, but Technorati is showing quite a few recent blog posts for mass spectrometry. I put in a few tags for mass spectrometry; we’ll see how long it takes for those to appear.
NIH Proteome Special Interest Group
The NIH ProtIG has some on-line lectures from the 2003 Exploring the Proteome II symposium. Richard Caprioli Profiling and Imaging of Proteins in Tissue Sections using Mass Spectrometry as a Discovery Tool in Biological and Clinical Research Steven Carr Biomarker Discovery by Proteomics Donald Hunt Analysis of Differential Protein Expression, the Phosphoproteome, Protein-Protein Interactions, and …
NIH Workshop on Proteomics Standards
The NIH Standards in Proteomics Workshop will be webcast January 4th and 5th, 2005.
5th North American FT-ICR MS Conference
The FT-ICR MS Conference runs from April 18 to 20, 2005 in Key West Florida. The pre-registration deadline is January 31, 2005.
Google Scholar
Google searching for scientific articles, e.g. mass spectrometry. It returns a list of articles ranked by citation number. Direct links to PDF files are provided where available, but availability seems to include any web site that has a copy of the article archived (including many educational sites). Early users can enjoy the Napster-like freedom that …
Spectroscopy Magazine MS Articles
The November Spectroscopy Magazine has two MS articles (PDF): Strategies for Higher Throughput MS Analyses by Michael Balogh and Diane Diehl and Ken Busch’s Mass Spectrometry Forum on Masses in Mass Spectrometry: Balancing the Analytical Scales. PDFs of Mass Spectrometry Forum from previous issues are also online.
ASMS Fall Workshop on Polymer Mass Spectrometry
The ASMS Fall Workshop on polymer MS is December 9 and 10, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland. The registration deadline is November 19.
Rays Of Positive Electricity
Sir J.J. Thomson’s book “Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis” is available on-line. You may need the DjVu Browser Plugin to view the doument.
One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower
From the University of Manitoba Press: In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981) and chancellor of the University of Manitoba. …
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New ASMS Website
The American Society for Mass Spectrometry website has been updated and moved to a new server. There may be some problems connecting this week as the change propagates through nameservers worldwide.
Siu Wins Herzberg Award
Professor K. W. Michael Siu, professor of chemistry and director of the Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry at York University in Totonto, received the the Gerhard Herzberg Award from the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy.
October Asilomar Conference
There are still a few registration slots open for next month’s Asilomar Conference on Metabolite Profiling.
NIH Proposal to Open Tax-Funded Research
The Slashdot website has a discussion on a recent NIH Proposal to require free and open access to the results of federally funded research. The Washington Post article (registration required).
myProteome.com
MyProteome.com is a new blog dedicated to proteomics.
Isotope Pattern Calculator
PAT is an isotope pattern calculator for Windows written by Bruce Tattershall at the University of Newcastle.