The newest -omics: Digging Into the Science of That Old-Book Smell in the New York Times and Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books in Analytical Chemistry.
Audio Periodic Table
Periodic table with audio annotations from the Royal Society of Chemistry (via).
Mass Spectrometry Word Cloud
From Wordle using Yahoo Pipes.
Spezify Mass Spectrometry
Another search page mashup.
Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
http://www.scivee.tv/flash/embedPlayer.swf
A lecture by John Yates III of the Scripps Research Institute at the La Jolla Proteomics Conference, July 2, 2008.
Alpha and Beta Calutrons
Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.
How a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Works
Mickey Laux of Orange Coast College explains how a quadrupole mass spectrometer works.
VisWiki
FT-ICR-MS Magnet Quench
Video of a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer magnet quenching with resulting cryogen boil off.
ASMS on Twitter
The American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference is being “tweeted” on #ASMS. There is even an RSS feed RSS feed. Also see #massspec or search for mass spectrometry.
PerkinElmer Acquires Analytica
PerkinElmer has acquired the electrospray ionization and mass spectrometry technology company Analytica of Branford.
18th IMSC Abstract Deadline
April 30th is the deadline for abstract submission for the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Bremen, Germany, August 30 – September 4, 2009.
Slideshare
Slideshare is like Youtube for Powerpoint presentations. For example:
Tandem Mass Spectroscopy Basicshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tandem-mass-spectroscopy-basics4122&stripped_title=tandem-mass-spectroscopy-basics
View more presentations from cwebster.
Mass Spectrometry on Linkedin
The social networking site Linkedin has a group for mass spectrometry. Linkedin is similar to FaceBook, but focuses on professional networking.
Mass Spectrometry Hits on Wikipedia
A graphical representation of the popularity of the Wikipedia page on mass spectrometry.
MIT Mandates Open Access to Research Publications
The MIT faculty has a adopted a policy that mandates open access to their scholarly publications. This follows similar moves by Harvard and Stanford (via).
Mass Spectrometry Twitter Feed
Mass spectrometry has a Twitter feed.
RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication
Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Health Care
Lecture from UCTV.