Category Archives: Web Resources

OpenWetWare is a Wiki for biology and biological engineering. It uses the MediaWiki server software that is also used by Wikipedia.

Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica coverage of science (via). The mass spectrometry community should be paying attention since the Wikipedia entry for mass spectrometry is one of the top hits for “mass spectrometry” on an increasing number of search engine pages (e.g. the #4 hit on Yahoo today). The entry has been edited more than …

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The Second Draft of Mass Spectrometry Terms is nearing completion. Please take a look and leave a comment.

IonSpec has updated their FTMS tutorial to include MALDI, ECD and other modern amenities while keeping the nice description of basic FTMS. My only complaint is that the frames implementation makes it difficult to deep link.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information has a nice database search page with multiple searches (PubMed, GenBank, PubChem, etc.) on the same page. One search gives the number of hits in each database and clicking on an icon shows the hits..

Wikipedia has a mass spectrometry category with encyclopedia entries for FTMS, MALDI (also in japanese), CID and several other topics at this point. If you have anything to add or change, you can edit a page or start a new one.

Easternblot has some comments on podcasting academic lectures and links to other science podcasts such as Nature (via > via > via).

Hubmed has a feature that allows you to plot occurrences of your search words as a function of citation year. For example, you can use it to find out that the term electrospray still holds a slight usage lead over MALDI.

Connotea is a del.icio.us-like social bookmarking site for scientists created by the Nature Publishing Group. As of today, there are only a few bookmarks for the tag Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, but I’m sure that will change as the site grows. (via tagsonomy.com)

A new template has been added (a new style under the old content). It’s the same content, but it should be easier to navigate.

NIH/NLM recently introduced RSS feeds based on Pubmed searches. Unfortunately, the feeds do not automatically update, rendering them fairly useless for many applications.

Useful for making RSS feeds: Biological mass spectrometryBiomedical mass spectrometryBiomedical & environmental mass spectrometryEuropean journal of mass spectrometry Journal of mass spectrometryJournal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryMass spectrometry reviewsRapid communications in mass spectrometry

The RSS feed feature is now live at Pubmed. As an example, here is a raw RSS feed for mass spectrometry and the same feed rendered in an html page. To generate a feed from a Pubmed search result page, select “RSS Feed” from the “Send to” dropdown menu (via Nodalpoint).

The MALDI MSI IG site has information on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric imaging, including software, links and a forum.

For Java equipped cell phones.

Pubmed to start offering RSS Feeds (via – via).