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.”

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:

Sites linking to the old MS on the Internet page

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

The 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between August 31st and September 5th 2003. That’s still a long way off, but it’s worth bookmarking the 16th IMSC Web page at http://www.imsc-edinburgh2003.com/. There’s no link back to the International Mass Spectrometry Society on the page, so here it is: http://www.imss.nl/. Note that the IMSS site is on a Netherlands server and has a “.nl” rather than a “.com” or “.org” Web address.

Welcome to my mass spectromery Web log or “blog” as they are called. Blogs are Web pages that consist of chronologically arranged lists similar to journal entries or news reports. The purpose of this blog is to record items of interest that I find on the Internet that I think will be of interest to the mass spectrometry community. I do this anyway as editor of Basepeak and the Mass Spectrometry Internet Resources FAQ; I’m hoping that blogging will make this easier. My philosophy from the early days of “Mass Spectrometry on the Internet” has been to try any Internet format and see how it plays with the MS crowd. Some things have worked and some haven’t. We’ll give this a go.