The Desorption Ionization Interest Group Meetingat ASMS, organized by John Allison, is tentatively scheduled Monday June 3 during the lunch break. The focus will be “Analysis of Non-covalent Complexes by ESI and MALDI: Why are these experiments so hard to do?” See the ASMS Interest Group page for more information.
Today, reorganization at Applera followed by negative market reaction. Meanwhile, Waters has been having a small rally in April. What a difference a few weeks makes.
There is no indication on the Montreux LC/MS Conference page when abstracts are due for the November 6-8, 2002 meeting, but there is contact information and an e-mail list signup.
The ASMS Conference Registration deadline is April 19th. Overflow hotels are the Courtyard Marriott Village at Lake Buena Vista, the Fairfield Inn at Lake Buena Vista, and the Spring Hill Suites at Lake Buena Vista. You could also try your luck at other nearby hotels if you are so inclined.
Here’s and article on DNA chips from the CBS News site.
The Web site for the Orlando World Center Marriott, site of the 50th Annual ASMS Conference, has a large set of panoramic views. You’ll need a plug-in for ipix format and a reasonably fast internet connection.
This just in from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry:
50th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
June 2 – 6, 2002
Orlando, FloridaCONFERENCE HOTEL
Marriott World Center, Rate: $146. Rooms at the Marriott are SOLD OUT.OVERFLOW HOTELS – shuttle buses will be provided. These hotels
are new and surround a common plaza. There are restaurants within walking
distance.
Courtyard Marriott Village at Lake Buena Vista, Rate: $94
Fairfield Inn at Lake Buena Vista, Rate: $72
SpringHill Suites at Lake Buena Vista, Rate: $104RESERVATIONS. Rooms in any of the overflow hotels above may be
booked by calling toll free: 877-682-8552Check the web site for the following
Instructions for presenters of talks and posters
Submission of manuscripts for the Conference Proceedings
Advance Registration – deadline April 19
Conference abstracts – will be posted April 15
The 900 MHz wide-bore NMR was delivered to PNNL last month.
The intrepid David Sparkman reports from Pittcon in this month’s JASMS. Contact ASMS if you deleted the e-mail containing the secret password needed to access e-JASMS on-line.
I’m still amazed by the Babel Fish translator, especially for pages that don’t even display properly on a standard US browser. Japanese to English translation is quite good, for example the Yokohama City University Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. Chinese to English does not appear to be as good, but the ideas come across as in this page from Fudan University. Korean to English is also a bit spotty but again the ideas come across: see the Korea Institute of Science and Technology page.
The Gyros Microfluidic CD is a sort of spinning microextraction disk for MALDI. It comes with its own sample prep juke box, but as yet no slot loading MALDI to play your biomolecular greatest hits.
Babel Fish translation of this site is now possible by clicking on the appropriate flag icon on the left side of the page. To get an idea of the power of this tool, take a look at the Spanish Mass Spectrometry Society, the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, or the German Mass Spectrometry Society Web sites translated into English. Compare to the original SEEM, JMMS or DGMS pages.
The 6th European FTICR-MS Workshop was last fall, but the site has some useful contact information and is a good example of a well-designed conference page.
Don’t forget to submit your Analytical Division abstract for the fall ACS meeting in Boston (April 8) before heading off to the spring ACS meeting in Orlando (April 7). Yes, it is on-line abstract submission, but the long lead-time from paper abstract days is still in place.
In the wake of the recent patent ruling, Waters stock is down 10% since Friday and the Quattro Platinum rollout scheduled for Monday has been delayed.
There is a new mass spectrometry glossary from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute and a related proteomics glossary.
GenomeWeb is reporting that Applied Biosystems and MDS won their patent suit against Micromass to the tune of $47.5M. The patent in question is US4963736: Mass spectrometer and method and improved ion transmission, which ABI and MDS call technology for “triple quadrupole mass spectrometers.” Also see CNNMoney and Reuters financial news stories.
MS among other techniques for biological weapons detection: The Science of Detecting Terror in the March 1 Analytical Chemistry A-pages.
iMass 1.0 is a molecular mass and isotope distribution calculator for Mac OS X. It also computes molecular weights of peptides based on amino acid codes. A nice piece of software.
The Formula To Mass To Formula Java applet only does most abundant isotope mass, but the mass to formula reverse lookup could save you the trouble of getting out of your chair to find out who has your copy of McLafferty.