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.
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.