This just in from the ASMS home office: The schedule Interest Group Meetings and Workshops for the 50th ASMS appears below. Among the many surprises we have waiting for you at the conference is a complimentary copy (to all registrants) of the 50th Anniversary Book, “Measuring Mass: From Positive Rays to Proteins.” MONDAY, JUNE 3 …

The deadline for ASMS extended abstract submission is May 29. Abstracts must be submitted using the abstract submission Web page. Note that embedded figures can be in color. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, but Microsoft Word or Word Perfect (Windows or Mac OS) documents can be submitted. You may need Adobe Acrobat (the …

The Desorption Ionization Interest Group Meetingat ASMS, organized by John Allison, is tentatively scheduled Monday June 3 during the lunch break. The focus will be “Analysis of Non-covalent Complexes by ESI and MALDI: Why are these experiments so hard to do?” See the ASMS Interest Group page for more information.

The ASMS Conference Registration deadline is April 19th. Overflow hotels are the Courtyard Marriott Village at Lake Buena Vista, the Fairfield Inn at Lake Buena Vista, and the Spring Hill Suites at Lake Buena Vista. You could also try your luck at other nearby hotels if you are so inclined.

The Web site for the Orlando World Center Marriott, site of the 50th Annual ASMS Conference, has a large set of panoramic views. You’ll need a plug-in for ipix format and a reasonably fast internet connection.

This just in from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry: 50th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry June 2 – 6, 2002 Orlando, Florida CONFERENCE HOTEL Marriott World Center, Rate: $146. Rooms at the Marriott are SOLD OUT. OVERFLOW HOTELS – shuttle buses will be provided. These hotels are new and surround a common plaza. There …

I’m still amazed by the Babel Fish translator, especially for pages that don’t even display properly on a standard US browser. Japanese to English translation is quite good, for example the Yokohama City University Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. Chinese to English does not appear to be as good, but the ideas come across as in this …

The Gyros Microfluidic CD is a sort of spinning microextraction disk for MALDI. It comes with its own sample prep juke box, but as yet no slot loading MALDI to play your biomolecular greatest hits.

Babel Fish translation of this site is now possible by clicking on the appropriate flag icon on the left side of the page. To get an idea of the power of this tool, take a look at the Spanish Mass Spectrometry Society, the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, or the German Mass Spectrometry Society Web …

The Formula To Mass To Formula Java applet only does most abundant isotope mass, but the mass to formula reverse lookup could save you the trouble of getting out of your chair to find out who has your copy of McLafferty.