The FT-ICR MS Conference runs from April 18 to 20, 2005 in Key West Florida. The pre-registration deadline is January 31, 2005.
Google Scholar
Google searching for scientific articles, e.g. mass spectrometry. It returns a list of articles ranked by citation number. Direct links to PDF files are provided where available, but availability seems to include any web site that has a copy of the article archived (including many educational sites). Early users can enjoy the Napster-like freedom that will last until shortly after the major journal publishers catch on.
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Spectroscopy Magazine MS Articles
The November Spectroscopy Magazine has two MS articles (PDF): Strategies for Higher Throughput MS Analyses by Michael Balogh and Diane Diehl and Ken Busch’s Mass Spectrometry Forum on Masses in Mass Spectrometry: Balancing the Analytical Scales. PDFs of Mass Spectrometry Forum from previous issues are also online.
ASMS Fall Workshop on Polymer Mass Spectrometry
The ASMS Fall Workshop on polymer MS is December 9 and 10, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland. The registration deadline is November 19.
Rays Of Positive Electricity
Sir J.J. Thomson’s book “Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis” is available on-line. You may need the DjVu Browser Plugin to view the doument.
One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower
From the University of Manitoba Press:
In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981) and chancellor of the University of Manitoba. An accomplished physicist, he wrote the first definitive text in English on mass spectroscopy, discovered the last stable isotope (platinum), and helped create important programs at universities and at the National Research Council.
New ASMS Website
The American Society for Mass Spectrometry website has been updated and moved to a new server. There may be some problems connecting this week as the change propagates through nameservers worldwide.
Siu Wins Herzberg Award
Professor K. W. Michael Siu, professor of chemistry and director of the Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry at York University in Totonto, received the the Gerhard Herzberg Award from the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy.
October Asilomar Conference
There are still a few registration slots open for next month’s Asilomar Conference on Metabolite Profiling.
NIH Proposal to Open Tax-Funded Research
The Slashdot website has a discussion on a recent NIH Proposal to require free and open access to the results of federally funded research. The Washington Post article (registration required).
myProteome.com
MyProteome.com is a new blog dedicated to proteomics.
Isotope Pattern Calculator
PAT is an isotope pattern calculator for Windows written by Bruce Tattershall at the University of Newcastle.
Asilomar Conference
The 20th Asilomar Conference on MS on Metabolite Profiling will be held October 15 – 18 in Pacific Grove, California. The registration deadline is September 24.
Element 111 – Roentgenium?
IUPAC/IUPAP have made a provisional recommendation to name element 111 roentgenium with symbol Rg. Comments are welcomed through October of this year.
Mass Spectrometry on Wikipedia
A Wiki is a collaborative authorship web document that anyone can edit. A Wikipedia is a combination of a Wiki and an encyclopedia. There is a Wikipedia entry for mass spectrometry with hyperlinks to related topics. Read and contribute.
Victor Talrose
Prof. Victor Talrose, Member of the Russian Academy of Science and one of the outstanding mass spectrometrists of the 20th century, died at his home near San Francisco on June 22nd at age 83. An account of some of Prof. Talrose’s many accomplishments can be found at the Thomson Medal page and in a 75th Birthday Tribute article.
Homeland and National Security Workshop 2004
A workshop on Detector/Sensor Research and Technology for Homeland and National Security: Chemical, Biological, Nuclear and Radiological Weapons, and Toxic Industrial Chemicals will be held September 14 -16, 2004 at the River Terrace Resort in Gatlinburg, Tennessee”
Proteomics Challenges
Stephen Naylor lays out the top proteomics challenges at the Beyond Genome conference in San Francisco (via Snowdeal).
SASHIMI
The goal of the SASHIMI Project is to provide “free open source software tools for the downstream analysis of mass spectrometric data.”
PSI-MS XML Data Format
The Proteomics Standards Initiative is aimed at setting data representation standards in proteomics, including an XML Data Format for Mass Spectrometry.