Mass spectrometry websites, social media, journal feeds, and other links and items of interest to the mass spectrometry community.
From ACS: We are pleased to announce that authors who contribute to Analytical Chemistry have a new way to save time and simplify the manuscript submission process. On February 4, 2003, the American Chemical Society released the ACS Paragon System for Analytical Chemistry. Now 19 ACS journals offer the benefits of Paragon. Implementation of this …
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Mark Gerstein’s Database of Macromolecular Movements at Yale has some very nice MPG movies and animated GIFs of motions that occur in proteins and other macromolecules. If you don’t like what you see, you can generate your own movies on the fly.
The Biocompare site has a “Product Matrix” comparison for Mass Spectrometers similar to those on car buying sites (e.g. Edmunds). The feature comparison is limited at this point, but it is a start.
Article You’ve Got Anthrax at the Beyond 2000 site.
The registration deadline for the 2003 ACS National Spring Meeting in NewOrleans is Wednesday, February 26, Register online, but not with a Mac using Internet Explorer. If you are using a Mac, head over to Netscape for their 7.0 browser.
The SDBS site has a searchable database of organic compounds with linked mass spectra, NMR, FTIR, Raman, and ESR spectra. The site is located at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
The Oak Ridge Y-12 facility, the world’s largest prep-scale MS project, had it’s 60th anniversary on Tuesday. Groundbreaking for the first alpha Calutron building was on February 18, 1943.
Abstracts for the 51st ASMS Conference, June 8 – 12, 2003, Montreal, Canada are due February 19, 2003. Abstracts must be submitted on-line at www.asms.org. Submit now and avoid the rush.
A rich site summary (RSS) feature has been added to the site. This consisted checking a few boxes at the Blogger site that ultimately generate an XML summary of the Web log posts. If you click on the link, you may wonder why reading something that looks like raw hypertext is a Good Thing. The …
The CDC Division of Laboratory Science Newborn Screening site includes a link to the July 2002 Summary Report Tandem Mass Spectrometry (PDF).
The NIH/NIDDK workshop “Proteomics in Diabetes” will be held April 23-25, 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Thermo Electron Strong Fourth Quarter 2002 Results Includes Strong Sector Sales
Forbes.com: Waters profit falls “Weakness in the company’s mass spectrometry business and slowing demand for some of its products from large pharmaceutical customers in the United States and Europe are hurting results.”
A Tag-Board Message Board has been added. The Tagboard is a a piece of Javascript that calls up stored messages from a central Web site. The idea is similar to the Web Log (Blog), except that anyone can post. The result is a sort of message board that visitors to the site can “tag” with …
Japan Times: Shimadzu dedicates lab to Tanaka
Interactive Map of the Montreal Convention Center site of ASMS 2003.
COLA ’03, The 7th International Conference on Laser Ablation, will be held October 5-10, 2003 at Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Currently scheduled speakers include Leo Esaki, Phaedon Avouris, David Blank, Barbara Garrison, Jim Horwitz, Tomoji, Mikk Lippmaa, Frank Trager, Martin Wolf, and Renato Zenobi.
A new take on The Periodic Table from BBC’s “Look Around You” program.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Probes Mississippi Mud
Applied Biosystems to cut 500 jobs