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.
Web-accessible Proteome Databases for Microbial Research
An article in the May issue of Proteomics describes the Proteome Database System for Microbial Research at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.
Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work?
A discussion of open access scientific publishing on the Slashdot website.
Conference on Small Molecule Science
Abstracts are due June 1 for the Conference on Small Molecule Science that will be held in Bristol, Rhode Island, August 8-14.
Standard Definitions of Terms Related to Mass Spectrometry
The MS Terms and Definitions project is outlined in the latest Chemistry International, IUPAC’s Newsmagazine.
Open Access News
Open Access News is a weblog with new on open internet access to scientific literature.
BaRf: Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds
BaRf is Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds – a nice hack on PubMed that generates an aggerate newsfeed for selected biotech journals.
Detectors and Sensors for CBNR Weapons
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 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Hosted by Oak Ridge National Labs.