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Author Archives: Kermit Murray
Harvester Wiki
Hwiki is a new bioinformatics wiki at EMBL.
Mass Spec Photos
Some more mass spectrometry photos showed up on Flickr.
News From the Seattle Meeting
The press releases from the Seattle ASMS meeting are filtering out into the blogsphere (and available as a feed).
Website as Graph (or Art)
Below is a graphical representation of this website rendered using a visualizer applet with the different components of the page represented by colored circles. (via)
More Mass Spec Cartoons
A few more cartoons about mass spectrometry and related topics (via).
Rays of Positive Electricity, Second Edition
I blogged a while back about Thomson’s 1913 Rays of Positive Electricity, which is available on-line in various formats. I recently found that the 1921 Rays of Positive Electricity Second Edition is also available. Thomson notes in the preface that The hope expressed in the first edition that the method of Positive Rays would be …
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ICP Mass Spectrometry Blog
There is a new blog on ICP MS run by a Florida State University chemistry alum.
Commercial DESI Source
Prosolia is now marketing a retrofit Desorption Electrospray Ionization interface.
Peer Reviewing Wikipedia
One of the most often heard responses to complaints about incorrect information in Wikipedia is “Stop complaining and fix it.” But many of those who would be willing to fix it are turned off because Wikipedia can be anti-expert with Byzantine rules of conduct that favor the rude and determined. Fixing Wikipedia doesn’t work if …
Open Access: ACS and ASMS
BioCurious Blog comments on American Chemical Society President E. Ann Nalley’s recent letter arguing against open access to journal articles that report on research funded by the NIH. Nalley objects to the “available after six months” policy, arguing that it will lead to lost revenues. It’s still too early to guage the effect on journal …
Volatiles in Tequila by GC
The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports on volatiles and ionic species in Tequila, Mezcal, Sotol, and Bacanora using ion chromatography and GC (via). GCMS and IRMS have also been used for Tequila analysis.
Mass Spectrometry at FACSS
There are just a few more days (April 28th) to submit an abstract for the FACSS meeting in Orlando September 24th through 28th, 2006. This will be the first FACSS with official ASMS participation.
MALDI Beats Electrospray
In a MALDI vs. electrospray GoogleBattle anyway (via).
Wikipedia: Mass-to-Charge Ratio
There is an interesting mass-to-charge ratio discussion on Wikipedia that illustrates a point I brought up in my ACS presentation last month (see also the Nature/Wikipedia/Britanica imbroglio). Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone and is peer reviewed only if ones peers choose to review and edit it. It will be interesting to see whether …
Mass Spectrometry for Surgeons
MIT Technology Review has an article on spatially resolved mass spectrometry and the potential for real-time tissue profiling during surgery. Mass spectrometrists may be wearing scrubs in the near future. (via).
MetaBlogging
I didn’t know that Chemical and Engineering News was blogging the 2006 Atlanta ACS meeting until I got a rare trackback citing my presentation from last week. Nature Publishing was there as well with Nature Newsblog and the scepticalchymist.
Mapping Mass Spectrometry Research Groups
Platial.com is a combination (mashup) of Google Maps and shared tagging. I made a map for mass spectrometry groups and put in a few entries. Feel free to put in your own group and location (you will need to sign up, but it’s free).
Blogs for Analytical Chemists
Here’s my presentation “Blogs for Analytical Chemists” from the spring 2006 American Chemical Society meeting in Atlanta (presented March 29th).
METLIN Metabolite Database
METLIN is a database system for metabolite identification by mass spectrometry. An article on the technique, XCMS: Processing Mass Spectrometry Data for Metabolite Profiling Using Nonlinear Peak Alignment, Matching, and Identification, just came out in the Analytical Chemistry. Software binaries are available for Windows and Mac OS X.