Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mass spectrometry

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[edit] References

All articles need more references especially the main mass spectrometry article.--Nick Y. 21:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Up and Running

Most pages in the project seem to be working. Feel free to tweak anything, especially article assessments. --Kkmurray 03:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge to mass spectrometry software

From SEQUEST and MzXML (and redirect from Mascot (software)). I made the new page and copied the info, but left the old pages for now.

I think this is a better organization, although it somewhat differs from general wikipedia practice. I think in this situation, being niche software all for similar purposes and for a specific group of scientists, we can do something better suited for this situation.--Nick Y. 17:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
How about mass spectrometry software to list of mass spectrometry software in Category:Lists of software? Alternately, the MS bioinformatics software can be summarized in Bioinformatics#Software_tools. There really should be a proteomics equivalent to Sequence alignment software, but if there is, I could not find it. The proteomics article doesn't even have a software section. Regarding the stubs, I found Category:Bioinformatics software which has similarly stubby articles, so SEQUEST and Mascot should probably be cleaned up and re-categorized there. I'll do the latter and think some more about the MS/proteomics software issue. --Kkmurray 17:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Generally the issue that comes up in merging these small articles is when they don't quite fit together or are relevant to multiple categories.--Nick Y. 20:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Global Dissociation Article Needed?

Lots of stubs for dissociation methods: Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation, Collision-induced dissociation, Infrared multiphoton dissociation, Electron capture dissociation (semi-related De novo repeat detection). There is no current tandem mass spectrometry page. Possible merge cleanup opportunity. --Kkmurray 03:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

There is now a tandem mass spectrometry article. I also created a stub for shotgun proteomics, which was linked from mass spectrometry software. --Kkmurray 03:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I've been working on updating the tandem MS article, as well as a few others. Leafschik1967 01:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference tools

Here are a couple of great tools for generating references:

--Kkmurray 03:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Awards Templates

Two new templates (not mine): Template:Recipients of the Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award‎ and Template:Biemann Medal Recipients‎. Lots of bio articles are needed to fill them in. --Kkmurray (talk) 13:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to create a similar template for the Thomson Medal, but I couldn't find the info. Any other awards that are important enough to be mentioned in Wikipedia? I'm working on the bio articles, but I hope to get some help (from others if not from former students/collaborators). It's funny that I had to defend Bowers' notability... Tons of second/third tier football players in Wikipedia and nobody questions their notability. Mgnelu (talk) 06:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Here's some a partial listing of Thomson medal recipients from JMS. The IMSF site has the past four conference reports,[1] but no earlier. The full list will require some digging. JASMS has bio information on Distinguished Contribution and Biemann winners (e.g. Bowers [2]). Issues older than one year are available on-line. The notability bar is pretty high for biography, so you need to have a pretty good stub going to avoid a flag on your new page. Don't forget to put template:WikiProject Mass spectrometry and template:biography templates on the article talk page. That lets other editors know that the article has a home and a group of editors ready to take care of it. --Kkmurray (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Following Kkmurray's example, I created a list of references that prove the notability of some mass spectrometrists who were awarded the Distinguished Contribution Award or Biemann medal (feel free to use them if you work on missing bio articles) [3] Mgnelu (talk) 07:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Getting these biographies on-line was a great idea. I made a page for Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin two days ago and it's now the #3 Google hit and the only English language biography not behind a pay site. --Kkmurray (talk) 20:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Insilicos

Hi! Pardon the intrusion. I just came across Insilicos in the backlog and noticed it was associated with this project. I'm wondering if anyone can help with it? I cleaned out a lot of the promotional fluff and merged one of their software -- sourcing what I couldm but I'm totally unfamiliar with their work and don't have enough of an understanding to really write this article. Can someone help? Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 15:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Article: Mass spectrum analysis

On interpretation of EI mass spectra. --Kkmurray (talk) 02:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)