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Author Archives: Kermit Murray
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectrometry
UC Berkeley Professor Peter Vollhardt talks about Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectroscopy in, not one, but two lectures in his Webcast Lecture for Chem 3B – Chemical Structure and Reactivity in Spring 2006 (Real Media).
Peacock GCMS Viewer
Peacock 0.1.7 for Mac OS X is a view and edit program for GCMS files.
The Inner Life of the Cell
A video produced by XVivo for Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. (on StudioDaily and via).
mMass Program
mMass is an open source mass spectrum analysis program written in Python and released under the GNU General Public License. Source code and Windows and Mac binaries are available for download.
Autoflex III Mass Spectrometer
Bruker introduced a new version of the Autoflex at the IMSC in Prague. I first saw this instrument in Barcelona at the IMSC 2000 and it still reminds me of the drones in Silent Running.
Mass Spectrometry Terms Final Draft
The third and final draft (PDF) of the Standard Definitions of Terms Relating To Mass Spectrometry document is up on the MS Terms website. This draft is currently undergoing peer review and will be the last draft before publication. It will also be presented as a poster (PDF) next week in Prague at the International …
Mass Spectrometry and Air Security
An article in the Independent suggests that mass spectrometric detection will be central to future airport security.
Calutron Operator’s Story
The Calutron operator in the right foreground of the famous photograph tells her story.
IRMS Used in Tour de France Case
Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) is figuring prominently in the Floyd Landis, winner of the Tour de France. Here’s an article on Testosterone and Doping Control and another on Detection of Epitestosterone Doping by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry that have some details on the tests.
Scale Model Hydrogen Atom
An eleven mile wide web page that depicts a hydrogen atom to scale (via).
Scanning Probe Electrospray
Georgia Tech researchers have placed an electrospray source in an AFM tip (via).
Proteomics Lecture on Google Video
The Google Video Clinical Proteomics: Cancer Biomarker Discovery presents a discussion of proteomics in cancer biomarker discovery. The lecture was presented by Dr. Daniel W. Chan of Johns Hopkins University at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus in 2005.
GCMS of Absinthe
From Friday’s Times-Picayune (and earlier in the New Yorker (PDF) and Wired News): reverse engineering the liqueur absinthe using GCMS.
Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue
All of the articles in the Nucleic Acids Research Web Server issue are available (for free) in both HTML and PDF versions. There are 150 papers that describe various web servers that have databases and software for DNA, RNA, protein sequences, protein structure, data mining and many other areas (via).
Alkali Metals and Water
Periodic properties of Group 1 elements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bJxHgm1sk Science meets reality television meets internet video (via).
NIH Podcasts
The National Institutes of Health has a podcast called NIH Research Radio that have about 20 minutes of NIH research news. You can put the newsfeed in your feed reader and it will remind you when a new show is available or you can download them to your iPod, computer, or other device automagically (with …
Google Trends
Google Trends is a new Google search device that plots the number of searches and news references for a particular term over time (via).
Analytical Pulls Out of Spring ACS
The American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry is pulling out of the 2007 ACS Meeting in Chicago next March. Presentations will be moved to Pittcon in late February, also in Chicago.
Gapminder
Gapminder (now in Google beta) has some excellent animated plots using world political and economic information. This could be a glimpse of the future of scientific data presentation (via).