“The Global Proteome Machine Organization was set up so that scientists involved in proteomics using tandem mass spectrometry could use that data to analyze proteomes. The projects supported by the GPMO have been selected to improve the quality of analysis, make the results portable and to provide a common platform for testing and validating proteomics …
Author Archives: Kermit Murray
Conference on MS Applied to CBW Agents
The 3rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry Applied to Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents will be held April 17-20, 2005 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. For more information, contact Dr. Ben L.M. van Baar at the TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory.
IUPAC Terms and Definitions Project
The IUPAC MS Terms and Definitions Project is now on the books. The associated website msterms.com is also up and running well.
Asilomar 2004
Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry Metabolite Profiling: Biomarker Discovery, Drug Efficacy and Fundamental Biochemistry October 15 – 19, 2004 “Metabolites have gained increasing interest over the past five years largely for their implications in diagnostic and pharmaceutical biomarker discovery. Although numerous small molecules are routinely measured in biofluids as indicators of health little is known …
The High Cost of Science Journals
In The Chronicle of Higher Education “Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals.” Some strategies for the coming revolution in scientific publishing.
JASMS Online Now at ScienceDirect
The on-line version of JASMS has a new home at Sciencedirect.com. If you are a member, you should have gotten an e-mail message with your password.
MS Terms and Definitions Web Site
I’ve started an MS Terms and Definitions website at msterms.com. This site will serve as the central web location for things related to the IUPAC MS Terms and Definitions Project.
Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information
I came across the background report for the Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information Conference when I was trying to figure out how much I liked the concept behind the Faculty of 1000 site. There is also a video of the webcast that has the discussion of this report (and other presentations). It’s good …
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MALDI of Intact Cells
The November issue of Today’s Chemist At Work has an article on MS and Microbiology by Catherine Fenselau and Kathryn Jackson.
Terms and Definitions
I have finally embarked in earnest on the quest to unite ASMS and IUPAC to get the MS terms and definitions situation in order. It has been about a dozen years since there was a general agreement on MS terminology and there has been just a little bit of change in the field in the …
Sanibel Conference on Elemental and Isotopic Analysis
The 16th Sanibel Conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry is on Inorganic Mass Spectrometry: Elemental and Isotopic Analysis and will be held January 23 – 27, 2004, at Sanibel Island, Florida. Program Chairs are Charles Evans, Barry McKinnon, and Peter Williams
Miniaturization of MS Workshop
The NSF Workshop Prospects for Miniaturization of Mass Spectrometry has a home page (with the conference report, notes and an on-line discussion coming on-line soon).
Polyxmass 0.6.4
Polyxmass, the open source polymer mass spectrometry software suite, has been updated to version 0.6.4.
Plasma Spectrochemistry Winter Conference 2004
The 2004 Winter Conference on  Plasma Spectrochemistry will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 5 Р10, 2004.
Proteomics on the Web
On Bio-Web: The Internet for Cell and Molecular Biologists. A book on Internet resources for bioscientists – $125 at Amazon.
Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology Meeting
The Keystone Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology will be held February 14 – 19, 2004 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Seventh European Workshop on FT-ICR MS
The Seventh European Workshop on FT-ICR MS will be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, March 28 through April 1, 2004. For contact information, see http://www.ag-przybylski.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/.
BlogShares – Mass Spectrometry Blog
This site is valued at more than $1500 by BlogShares. Unfortunately, these dollars can only be spent in the blogsphere.
Virtual MS Lab
The Virtual Mass Spectrometry Lab is a joint project between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. There are some nice virtual reality views of real-life instruments, but the coolest thing is the virtual instrument pages that allow you to run experiments based on HTML form input. The frame-based interface is a little clunky …
NIST MS of Synthetic-Polymer Mixtures Workshop
The NIST Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic-Polymer Mixtures Workshop will be held in Gaithersburg, MD, November 13-14, 2003.