WITA Proteomics’ What is Proteomics? concisely connects the dots between Big Pharma and MS.
A page of chemistry QuickTime movies, animations, and streaming audio includes a nice GC-MS animation. The Rutherford scattering animation is a good example of what you can do with a simple Flash animation. If you don’t like Flash, there is a nice lecture on Rutherford at the University of Virginia with a Rutherford scattering Java applet. Or try this one at Florida State.
Applied Biosystems has had some nice on-line movies for some time, but they are a little hard to find on their Web site unless you know to look under Libraries, Multimedia. Check out the MALDI and ESI videos, including my favorite, the Riven-like reflectron flythrough. My only complaint is that it isn’t streaming video – the movie doesn’t start until it has completely downloaded.
Finnigan has rolled out new software for de novo sequencing and an upgrade of the SEQUEST-based proteomics software just in time for the ABRF meeting in Austin. They also have a new proteomics workstation, but I couldn’t get the Thermofinnigan home page to let me see the link (IE5/Mac).
The debate on the approach to DNA sequencing made the Washington Post (Rivals Resume Battle Of the Genome Map) and the New York Times (Scientists Say Gene Decoders Needed Them).
Proteomics portals seem to be sprouting like mushrooms after a Louisiana rain. Here’s one, ProteinScience.com, with fairly standard, but overall useful, content. It’s also easy to navigate, which rates high in my book. The ‘Patents’ page saves the trouble of IP surfing at the Delphion site. I also like the Proteomicsurf site, especially since it has an MS link, but the background gives me vertigo.
The Siemens Advance Quantra FT-MS may look like a mini-fridge, but it’s a 1T permanent magnet FTMS. Yes, it only does EI, but it does it at 20,000 mass resolution.
The first Pittcon salvo, the AccuTOF Mass Spectrometer from JEOL:
“The AccuTOF is the first mass spectrometer to enable accurate mass measurement of components at both low and high concentrations. Until now, scientists were limited to working with only a narrow concentration range to obtain an accurate mass measurement. The AccuTOF revolutionizes mass spectrometry with a dynamic range that expands the applications for qualitative and quantitative analysis in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological sectors. The AccuTOF completely changes the way mass spectrometry has traditionally been applied to liquid chromatography.”
GNOME (open source) software for mass spectrometric data analysis of a variety of polymers : polyXmass.
I added proteomics and genomics stories to the newsfeed. This picks up MS stories that don’t explicitly mention MS, for example this recent article about SEQUENOM and SNP assays.
A pentaquadrupole mass spectrometer (QqQqQ) with photo.
I uploaded my old Simion 4.0 DOS disks and they are now linked.
The deadline for abstract submission is Friday February 22, 2002. See the 50th ASMS Conference Abstract Entry Web page for on-line abstract entry.
MS Webmasters, it is time to update your old Mass Spectrometry on the Internet links. Any pages with the old Emory links (http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~kmurray/mslist.html or the really old http://tswww.cc.emory.edu/~kmurray/mslist.html) should update their links to the SpectroscopyNow/Basepeak link: http://www.spectroscopynow.com/Spy/ms/. The MS on the Internet link is now officially dead.
To find out what pages are linked to the old site, see below:
Be sure to register for Pittcon 2002 before February 11 to get the advance rate. Surprisingly, there is no link back to the main Pittcon site (http://www.pittcon.org/) from the registration site.
Here is some data on US chemistry department funding and peer rankings that I dug out of the funding agancy and US News sites. They are a bit tough to find, so I pulled the summary data out and left links back to the agency sites.
NSF MPS Chemistry Funding FY2001
NIH Chemistry Department Funding FY2000
US News Chemistry Graduate Program Rank (1999)
It’s hard to find a mass spectrometry site these days that isn’t devoted to proteomics, but the Nucleic Acids Massspec Toolbox at the University of Utah is a welcome exception. Some very nice Java scripts by Jef Rozenski that let you calculate oligo mass, composition and other useful things on-line.
Here are some Web-based Isotope Pattern Caculators that I recently tracked down for a Usenet post:
Molmass (Java with downloadable ‘lite’ version)
http://www.oraxcel.com/projects/molmass/index.htm
ChemCalc
http://www.geocities.com/junhuayan/pattern.htm
SIS MS Tools
http://www.sisweb.com/cgi-bin/mass10.pl
Sheffield Chemputer
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemputer/isotopes.html
For stand-alone there is Isopro for Windows http://members.aol.com/msmssoft/
and the Macintosh Isotope Pattern Calculator http://info-mac.acornsw.com/infomac/_SCIENCE_AND_MATH/ISOTOPE-PATTERN-CALC-166.HTML
I added the “MS NEWS” headlines courtesy of Moreover Technologies and about 20 minutes of Javascript cut-and-paste. The process is called Web syndication and the small quantity of it on this page is free.
There is a laser ablation A-page cover story (and nice cover graphic!) for the February 1 Analytical Chemistry. Don’t forget to bookmark the article search page while you are there.