Stephen Naylor lays out the top proteomics challenges at the Beyond Genome conference in San Francisco (via Snowdeal).
Category Archives: MS in the News
Web-accessible Proteome Databases for Microbial Research
An article in the May issue of Proteomics describes the Proteome Database System for Microbial Research at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.
Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work?
A discussion of open access scientific publishing on the Slashdot website.
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.
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 …
IMSC 2006 Home Page
A web site has been launched for the 2006 International Mass Spectrometry Conference.
Asilomar Conference on Biomolecule Interactions/Protein Complexes
This just in: 19th ASILOMAR CONFERENCE on MASS SPECTROMETRY sponsored by ASMS Biomolecule Interactions: Identification and Characterization of Protein Complexes October 17 – 21, 2003 The Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California Program Chairs: Joseph A. Loo (University of California, Los Angeles) and Carol V. Robinson (Cambridge University) Program details and registration are posted to …
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Open Access Scientific Publishing
A revolution in scientific publishing? The latest on open access Web publishing on the Snowdeal Bio/med-informatics blog. Links to a recent Salon article and some older stuff. Also see Bioinformatrix on the Public Library of Science.
Ciphergen Settles SELDI MS Lawsuit
From Genomeweb.com – “Ciphergen Settles with LumiCyte, Molecular Analytical Systems over SELDI “
Neonatal Screening by Tandem MS
Neonatal screening for citrullinaemia in the April European Journal of Pediatrics.
2DE/MALDI for Tumor Biomarkers
Loss of clusterin both in serum and tissue correlates with the tumorigenesis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via proteomics approaches in the April World Journal of Gastroenterology.
ESI/MS for Lipidomics
Global analyses of cellular lipidomes directly from crude extracts of biological samples by ESI/MS: a bridge to lipidomics in the April Journal of Lipid Research.
Laser Ablation and MALDI Mechanisms
The February Chemical Reviews covers Laser Ablation of Molecular Substrates with guest editors Savas Georgiou and Franz Hillenkamp.
LC-ESI and GCMS of Chocolate Metabolites
Chocolate intake increases urinary excretion of polyphenol-derived phenolic acids in healthy human subjects in the April edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Micromass Sells Inorganic MS Business
Article at Genomeweb.com
Pfizer Award Deadline Extended
The deadline for the ACS Pfizer Graduate Travel Awards in Analytical Chemistry has been extended to April 7.
Quantum Computing with Two Ions
Trapped ions make logic gates at PhysicsWeb.
IMSC 2003 Abstract Deadline Extended
IMSC 2003 submission of Abstracts The deadline for the submission of oral and standard poster abstracts has been extended to April 25, 2003. Abstracts for outstanding late breaking results posters may be submitted up to August 31, 2003.