This article just in on the HubMed newsfeed: A new approach to the characterization of volatile signatures of cork wine stoppers using a dynamic headspace method coupled to mass spectrometry (DHS-MS).
MS Blog Syndicated
The Mass Spectrometry Blog is officially syndicated at Syndic8.com.
Perkin Elmer MALDI oa-TOF
Perkin Elmer has a new orthogonal acceleration MALDI TOF, the prOTOF 2000.
HubMed, a New PubMed/MEDLINE Interface
The HubMed website is an alternative PubMed MEDLINE interface. There are numerous useful and unique features, including and RSS newsfeed that can be read by newsreader software such as NewzCrawler (Windows), NetNewsWire Pro (OS X) or Amphetadesk (cross-platform). The feed is updated daily, so you can read the latest MS abstracts every morning along with CNN and the New York Times. Another feature that is fun to play with is the citation occurrence plot, as shown below for a search using the word ‘electrospray.’ The plot shows the total yearly occurrences of that word in MEDLINE citations.
The Comic Book Periodic Table
If you haven’t seen The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements by F. James Holler and John P. Selegue at the University of Kentucky, by all means do so now.
One Stop Journal Browsing
JustBio shows what you can do with a little Javascript. For example, the journal Science table of contents. The TOC information is parsed directly from the journal sites, so the look is consistent from journal to journal.
Protein Mass Spectrometry Markup Language
A nice example of XML applied to MS is the Protein Mass Spectrometry Markup Language (ProMSML) developed by the Manitoba Proteomics Centre.
MS Blog Now in Blogging Ecosystem
The Mass Spectrometry Blog now has statistics in the ‘Blogging Ecosystem’, a sort of weblog search and link identification system.
Videos for Life Sciences Instruments
Many nice product videos at the Biocompare streaming video webpage. No mass specs, but check out the laser capture microdissection demo.
XML for Molecular Biology
Here is a list of resoruces for XML for Molecular Biology that was compiled by Paul Gordon.
First Commercial 12 T FTMS Installed
GenomeWeb reports that the first commercdial 12 T FTMS system is being installed at the Mayo Clinic in a collaboration between Bruker and David Muddiman, director of Mayo’s W.M. Keck FT-ICR Lab.
IMSC 2003 On-line Abstract Submission
Abstracts for the 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference can now be submitted on-line. See the IMSC Web page for more information.
Analytical Chemistry Now Up on ACS Paragon System
From ACS:
We are pleased to announce that authors who contribute to Analytical Chemistry have a new way to save time and simplify the manuscript submission process.
On February 4, 2003, the American Chemical Society released the ACS Paragon System for Analytical Chemistry. Now 19 ACS journals offer the benefits of Paragon. Implementation of this new system will continue for other ACS journals through 2003.
Paragon, a Model of Excellence in Scientific Collaboration, gives you user-friendly features such as your own personalized home page, customized submission environments for each journal, and high-level manuscript status information. As a published author in Analytical Chemistry, you are invited to register now to take advantage of these benefits.
Please take a few minutes now to complete the one-time user registration (http://paragon.acs.org) for Paragon. Or visit our Paragon information Web site (http://pubs.acs.org/paragon) for more details.
The Bioinformatics Revolution Will be Televised
Mark Gerstein’s Database of Macromolecular Movements at Yale has some very nice MPG movies and animated GIFs of motions that occur in proteins and other macromolecules. If you don’t like what you see, you can generate your own movies on the fly.
Mass Spectrometer Comparison Site
The Biocompare site has a “Product Matrix” comparison for Mass Spectrometers similar to those on car buying sites (e.g. Edmunds). The feature comparison is limited at this point, but it is a start.
System Detects Chemical and Biological Agents in Mail
Article You’ve Got Anthrax at the Beyond 2000 site.
Registration Deadline for 2003 ACS NewOrleans Meeting
The registration deadline for the 2003 ACS National Spring Meeting in NewOrleans is Wednesday, February 26, Register online, but not with a Mac using Internet Explorer. If you are using a Mac, head over to Netscape for their 7.0 browser.
Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds
The SDBS site has a searchable database of organic compounds with linked mass spectra, NMR, FTIR, Raman, and ESR spectra. The site is located at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Y-12 facility Turns 60
The Oak Ridge Y-12 facility, the world’s largest prep-scale MS project, had it’s 60th anniversary on Tuesday. Groundbreaking for the first alpha Calutron building was on February 18, 1943.
ASMS Abstract Deadline is February 19, 2003
Abstracts for the 51st ASMS Conference, June 8 – 12, 2003, Montreal, Canada are due February 19, 2003. Abstracts must be submitted on-line at www.asms.org. Submit now and avoid the rush.