Joerg’s Mass Spectrometry Page has links to his GNU Public License (GPL) programs for mass spectrometry and some other useful links.
Author Archives: Kermit Murray
Do Want Acrylamide With That?
Verification of the findings of acrylamide in heated foods. LC-MS/MS analysis of heated foods finds the highest level of acrylamide in french fries.
MALDI and 2D Gels to ID Plant Proteins
Proteomic identification of plant proteins probed by mammalian nitric oxide synthase antibodies in Planta.
MALDI of E coli Membrane Proteins
Proteomic analysis of the cell envelope fraction of Escherichia coli in this month’s Amino Acids.
Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale
Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXIII will be held in Granada, Spain, 7-12 September 2003. The abstract deadline is March 31.
Superheavy 7H Isotope Detected
Researchers at the RIKEN laboratory in Japan report the detection of Hydrogen-7, the heaviest H isotope yet observed.
NIH NCRR Strategic Planning Survey
NIH NCRR wants your input on Strategic Planning. Tell them to fund more mass specs.
Building a Better Protein Chip
Multifactorial screening design and analysis of SELDI-TOF ProteinChip array optimization experiments in February’s Biotechniques.
MS Based Cork Sniffing
This article just in on the HubMed newsfeed: A new approach to the characterization of volatile signatures of cork wine stoppers using a dynamic headspace method coupled to mass spectrometry (DHS-MS).
MS Blog Syndicated
The Mass Spectrometry Blog is officially syndicated at Syndic8.com.
Perkin Elmer MALDI oa-TOF
Perkin Elmer has a new orthogonal acceleration MALDI TOF, the prOTOF 2000.
HubMed, a New PubMed/MEDLINE Interface
The HubMed website is an alternative PubMed MEDLINE interface. There are numerous useful and unique features, including and RSS newsfeed that can be read by newsreader software such as NewzCrawler (Windows), NetNewsWire Pro (OS X) or Amphetadesk (cross-platform). The feed is updated daily, so you can read the latest MS abstracts every morning along with …
The Comic Book Periodic Table
If you haven’t seen The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements by F. James Holler and John P. Selegue at the University of Kentucky, by all means do so now.
One Stop Journal Browsing
JustBio shows what you can do with a little Javascript. For example, the journal Science table of contents. The TOC information is parsed directly from the journal sites, so the look is consistent from journal to journal.
Protein Mass Spectrometry Markup Language
A nice example of XML applied to MS is the Protein Mass Spectrometry Markup Language (ProMSML) developed by the Manitoba Proteomics Centre.
MS Blog Now in Blogging Ecosystem
The Mass Spectrometry Blog now has statistics in the ‘Blogging Ecosystem’, a sort of weblog search and link identification system.
Videos for Life Sciences Instruments
Many nice product videos at the Biocompare streaming video webpage. No mass specs, but check out the laser capture microdissection demo.
XML for Molecular Biology
Here is a list of resoruces for XML for Molecular Biology that was compiled by Paul Gordon.
First Commercial 12 T FTMS Installed
GenomeWeb reports that the first commercdial 12 T FTMS system is being installed at the Mayo Clinic in a collaboration between Bruker and David Muddiman, director of Mayo’s W.M. Keck FT-ICR Lab.
IMSC 2003 On-line Abstract Submission
Abstracts for the 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference can now be submitted on-line. See the IMSC Web page for more information.