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.
RSS Feed Added
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