The Proteomics Standards Initiative is aimed at setting data representation standards in proteomics, including an XML Data Format for Mass Spectrometry.
Tag Archives: mass spec
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.
BlogStreet Visual Neighborhood
Blogstreet has a Java tool that lets you visualize blog hyperlinking neighborhoods. You get a graphical representation of a small piece of the “web.”
MS Workshop in Russia
The Second Workshop on Mass Spectrometry in Chemical Physics, Biophysics and Environmental Sciences will take place in Zvenigorod Russia on October 4-7, 2004.
JCAMP-DX Page at Sourceforge
JCAMP-DX has a homepage and a SourceForge Project page.
MSQuant LC/MS Tool
SourceForge.net: Project Info – MSQuant: “MSQuant is a tool for quantitative proteomics/mass spectrometry and processes spectra and LC runs to find quantitative information about proteins and peptides. Though automated it also allows manual inspection and change.”
ASMS 2004 Conference Registration
The deadline for ASMS conference registration is March 31 if you are presenting, April 16 if you are not.
Open Source Software for Proteomics
“The Global Proteome Machine Organization was set up so that scientists involved in proteomics using tandem mass spectrometry could use that data to analyze proteomes. The projects supported by the GPMO have been selected to improve the quality of analysis, make the results portable and to provide a common platform for testing and validating proteomics …
Conference on MS Applied to CBW Agents
The 3rd Conference on Mass Spectrometry Applied to Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents will be held April 17-20, 2005 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. For more information, contact Dr. Ben L.M. van Baar at the TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory.
IUPAC Terms and Definitions Project
The IUPAC MS Terms and Definitions Project is now on the books. The associated website msterms.com is also up and running well.
Asilomar 2004
Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry Metabolite Profiling: Biomarker Discovery, Drug Efficacy and Fundamental Biochemistry October 15 – 19, 2004 “Metabolites have gained increasing interest over the past five years largely for their implications in diagnostic and pharmaceutical biomarker discovery. Although numerous small molecules are routinely measured in biofluids as indicators of health little is known …
The High Cost of Science Journals
In The Chronicle of Higher Education “Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals.” Some strategies for the coming revolution in scientific publishing.
JASMS Online Now at ScienceDirect
The on-line version of JASMS has a new home at Sciencedirect.com. If you are a member, you should have gotten an e-mail message with your password.
MS Terms and Definitions Web Site
I’ve started an MS Terms and Definitions website at msterms.com. This site will serve as the central web location for things related to the IUPAC MS Terms and Definitions Project.