Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson’s Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books.
Category Archives: Web Resources
Computational MS Demo
From the University of California at San Diego. Update: direct link to above page.
Scivee: Science TV
YouTube with science videos, a project with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (via).
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France
Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.
Blogroll Cleaning
TIme for a blogroll cleaning. The old blogroll is in the comments.
NIH Videocasts on Proteomics
Videocasts of mass spectrometry talks (RSS): Targeted MS Assays for Biomarkers: Enabling a Biomarker Pipeline, Leigh Anderson, Large Scale Proteomics Corporation Emerging Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structure Elucidation of Cellular Complexes, Michal Sharon, Cambridge University Top Down Mass Spectrometry: 2005, N. Kelleher, University of Illinois Finding Function with Mass Spectrometry in Cancer and Infectious …
LOL Mass Spectrometry
A mashup of Lolcat and MS journal newsfeeds (via; via)
Wikipedia Hegemony
This Reason Magazine article only mentions mass spectrometry tangentially, but illustrates one of the points I tried to make in this poster: Wikipedia can’t be ignored if it’s the first Google hit in your topic area.
MS Flash Simulation
Mass spectrometer Flash simulation at eduMedia.
Mass Spectrometry Wikiality
Along with Wikipedia’s mass spectrometry entry, which has risen to become the number one Google hit for mass spectrometry, there are a few other noteworthy Wikimedia projects: mass spectrometry photos and diagrams in Wikimedia Commons, mass spectrometry defined in Wictionary, and mass spectrometry section in a Wikibooks selection on proteomics.
Yahoo Pipes Mass Spectrometry
Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectrometry journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g. Analytical Chemisry) are filtered to pull out the mass spectrometry articles.
Proteomics Clinical Applications
Wiley has launched a new proteomics journal, Proteomics – Clinical Applications aimed at “application of proteomics to the study of human disease and translation to the clinic.” A quick browse of the first issue suggest that at least half of the articles will be in some way related to mass spectrometry. Fortunately there is RSS …
Moving a Large Instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmVb779NP4 The KATRIN MAC-E Filter travels through Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen (via).
Spectroscopy Journal Impact Factors
2005 Impact Factor 1 – Mass Spectroscopy Rev. (13.27) 2 – Prog. NMR Spectroscopy (6.46) 3 – J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom. (3.64) 4 – J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectr. (3.63) 5 – J. Mass Spectrometry (3.57) 6 – Rapid Comm. Mass Spectr. (3.09) 7 – NMR in Biomedicine (2.47) 8 – J. Magnetic Resonance (2.42) …
LCMS Finds Cocaine on Euros
This Analyst article on LCMS for the determination of drug contamination on Irish euro banknotes by Jonathan Bones, Mirek Macka and Brett Paull at the Dublin City University National Center for Sensor Research has been getting quite a bit of press. Trace cocaine was found on all 45 bank notes tested. This is perhaps not …
C60, the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth
Here is a video (RealVideo) of a 1995 lecture by Harry Kroto on the discovery of C60. The famous mass spectrum is at the 12 minute mark (via>via).
Mass Spectrometry IDs Fake Fur
It isn’t clear what test was performed, but this story about fake fur has been the biggest mass spectrometry item of the past week. One possibility is MALDI MS of keratin, as described in Identification and Quantification of Feathers, Down, and Hair of Avian and Mammalian Origin Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry by …
Clickable CID Spectrum
The Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility at the University of New South Wales has a peptide collision induced dissociation simulator in which you use a mouse click to break peptide backbone bonds. There is also a sequencing tutorial with study questions.
Proteomics Podcast
The Wiley journal Proteomics has started a podcast. Unfortunately, it isn’t formatted for subscription and each audio file must be downloaded individually. Update: There is now a URL for the podcast that can be used with iTunes or similar software: http://www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2120/podcast/podcast.xml.
Nier’s Mass Spectrograph
Several photos of the 1940 Nier Mass Spectrograph are online at the National Museum of American History. Alfred Nier built this instrument to separate 235U from 238U and test the prediction that the former undergoes fission (via).