A rich site summary (RSS) feature has been added to the site. This consisted checking a few boxes at the Blogger site that ultimately generate an XML summary of the Web log posts. If you click on the link, you may wonder why reading something that looks like raw hypertext is a Good Thing. The real utility comes from syndicating the site material so that it can be used on other sites or aggregated with other news and information (an example of aggregated information can be seen at the left margin of this site under the “MS and Biotech News” – an automatically updated newsfeed from Moreover). If this still doesn’t stir you interest, imagine what it would be like if all scientific journal tables of contents were syndicated and a selected set of recent articles could be linked automatically from a Web site. For example, a proteomics Web site could link to a newsfeed of all the MALDI of glycoproteins papers published in the past month. No cut-and-paste links. No out of date pages. If the Web-logging community can do it, scientific journal publishers can as well.
Newborn Screening by MS/MS
The CDC Division of Laboratory Science Newborn Screening site includes a link to the July 2002 Summary Report Tandem Mass Spectrometry (PDF).
Proteomics in Diabetes Workshop
The NIH/NIDDK workshop “Proteomics in Diabetes” will be held April 23-25, 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Strong Sector MS Sales
Waters Profit Falls
Forbes.com: Waters profit falls
“Weakness in the company’s mass spectrometry business and slowing demand for some of its products from large pharmaceutical customers in the United States and Europe are hurting results.”
Tagboard Added/Yanked
A Tag-Board Message Board has been added. The Tagboard is a a piece of Javascript that calls up stored messages from a central Web site. The idea is similar to the Web Log (Blog), except that anyone can post. The result is a sort of message board that visitors to the site can “tag” with a short comment when they visit. Feel free to post or link.
Update: The Tagboard has migrated over to the Chemistry Internship Blog, where it might be more useful.
Shimadzu dedicates Lab to Tanaka
Japan Times: Shimadzu dedicates lab to Tanaka
ASMS Montreal Map
Interactive Map of the Montreal Convention Center site of ASMS 2003.
COLA 2003
COLA ’03, The 7th International Conference on Laser Ablation, will be held October 5-10, 2003 at Hersonissos, Crete, Greece.
Currently scheduled speakers include Leo Esaki, Phaedon Avouris, David Blank, Barbara Garrison, Jim Horwitz, Tomoji, Mikk Lippmaa, Frank Trager, Martin Wolf, and Renato Zenobi.
New Periodic Table
A new take on The Periodic Table from BBC’s “Look Around You” program.
M√ɬºnsters Universit√ɬ§ts-Zeitung: Fliegende Moleküle: Medizinische Physik entwickelte nobelpreiswürdige Methode
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If you are having trouble reading the ASMS 2003 conference hotel map on-line, here is a 72 DPI version and a blow up of the Palais des Congrés area.
SpectroscopyNow: Mass Nobel Controversy
International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2003
Registration information is now available for the 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference
in Edinburgh, 31 August – September 5, 2003. Accommodations can be booked after the first of the year and abstracts are due at the end of March 2003.
Südwest Presse: Chemie-Nobelpreis ehrt den Falschen
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Deutschlandfunk: Wer zu spät kommt
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