A noble gas with 118 protons has been discovered (via).
Category Archives: Web Resources
Who Needs Powerpoint
An excellent Google Video critique of “Determination of Methylmercury, Ethylmercury, and Inorganic Mercury in Mouse Tissues, Following Administration of Thimerosal, by Species-Specific Isotope Dilution GC-Inductively Coupled Plasma-MS ,” Qvarnstrom, Lambertsson, Havarinasab, Hultman, & Frech,Anal. Chem. 2003; 75 4120 using pen, paper and video camera.
C&E News MS Cover Story
Chemical & Engineering News has a cover story on the International Mass Spectrometry Conference last month in Prague.
Wiley Journal Newsfeeds
Wiley InterScience journals now have RSS newsfeeds (marked-up example): Journal of Mass Spectrometry: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/6043 Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/4849 Mass Spectrometry Reviews: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/49879
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectrometry
UC Berkeley Professor Peter Vollhardt talks about Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectroscopy in, not one, but two lectures in his Webcast Lecture for Chem 3B – Chemical Structure and Reactivity in Spring 2006 (Real Media).
Peacock GCMS Viewer
Peacock 0.1.7 for Mac OS X is a view and edit program for GCMS files.
The Inner Life of the Cell
A video produced by XVivo for Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. (on StudioDaily and via).
mMass Program
mMass is an open source mass spectrum analysis program written in Python and released under the GNU General Public License. Source code and Windows and Mac binaries are available for download.
Mass Spectrometry Terms Final Draft
The third and final draft (PDF) of the Standard Definitions of Terms Relating To Mass Spectrometry document is up on the MS Terms website. This draft is currently undergoing peer review and will be the last draft before publication. It will also be presented as a poster (PDF) next week in Prague at the International …
Calutron Operator’s Story
The Calutron operator in the right foreground of the famous photograph tells her story.
Scanning Probe Electrospray
Georgia Tech researchers have placed an electrospray source in an AFM tip (via).
Proteomics Lecture on Google Video
The Google Video Clinical Proteomics: Cancer Biomarker Discovery presents a discussion of proteomics in cancer biomarker discovery. The lecture was presented by Dr. Daniel W. Chan of Johns Hopkins University at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus in 2005.
Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue
All of the articles in the Nucleic Acids Research Web Server issue are available (for free) in both HTML and PDF versions. There are 150 papers that describe various web servers that have databases and software for DNA, RNA, protein sequences, protein structure, data mining and many other areas (via).
NIH Podcasts
The National Institutes of Health has a podcast called NIH Research Radio that have about 20 minutes of NIH research news. You can put the newsfeed in your feed reader and it will remind you when a new show is available or you can download them to your iPod, computer, or other device automagically (with …
Google Trends
Google Trends is a new Google search device that plots the number of searches and news references for a particular term over time (via).
Gapminder
Gapminder (now in Google beta) has some excellent animated plots using world political and economic information. This could be a glimpse of the future of scientific data presentation (via).
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)