Mass spectrometry websites, social media, journal feeds, and other links and items of interest to the mass spectrometry community.
Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013) was published last June in Pure and Applied Chemistry, the IUPAC journal. The PDF document is freely available and can be republished with attribution. I’m adding the terms to the MS Terms Wiki, but is a slow cut-and-paste process and not all of the terms …
Continue reading “Mass Spectrometry Terms Published and Wiki Coming Online”
Mass Spectrometry on Pintarest, the photo-sharing social media website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgU8H82xC7w Wikipedia Mass Spectrometry article converted to a Youtube video using speech synthesis.
Connotea, Nature Publishing Group’s reference management website, is closing on March 12.
Mass spectrometry WikiMindMap. Also WikipediaRoll.
ASMS 2012 Program – App version of the conference program. MS iCalc – Accurate and average mass, isotope patterns, peptide sequence/fragmentation, mass/concentration conversion, etc. Accurate Mass Calculator – Accurate mass, isotope distribution. iProteome – Search Uniprot for human proteins.
This year’s hashtag: #ASMS2012 And don’t forget to follow @asmsnews Update: also #ASMS apparently, so you really need to search for both.
http://ptable.com/
Royal Society scientific papers more than 70 years old are now openly available in a searchable online archive. This includes Philosophical Transactions and publications such as J. J. Thomson’s “Bakerian Lecture: Rays of Positive Electricity” from 1913 (via).
SharedProteomics is a WordPress driven proteomics site with forums.
The 19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will be held September 15-21, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan.
imzML
#ASMS and #ASMS2011.
Here.
Lecture by Lawrence Lessig at CERN, April 18, 2011 (additional info).
A blog that finds the humor in table of contents graphics.
The newest “omics” is culturomics; see Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books in Science. It is one of the few “omics” that doesn’t use mass spectrometry, but it can be used to learn about mass spectrometry (via).
IsoPro 3.1, the mass spectral isotopic distirbution simulator for Windows, is now freeware and hosted on Google Sites (previously).
The webcomic Toothpaste for Dinner weighs in.
The ASMS conference is on Twitter again this year (hashtag #ASMS). Unlike last year, manufacturers such as Waters are using tweets to promote their instruments and events. This year, too, there is a Twitter parade.