Real-time API control of mass specs has been hard to get started (C#, VS, etc). Mike Hoopmann's recent work makes dev easier & more open!:

Nova - lightweight dev library
schweppelab.github.io/Nova/ pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Helios - a unified instrument API now @ JPR
github.com/SchweppeLab/...

Huge congratulations to @chrismcgann.bsky.social who passed his PhD dissertation defense yesterday with flying colors!!

Dr. McGann was the lab’s first PhD student and now first graduate! So excited and proud of all of the things he’s accomplished!

Comet-FI, with inspiration from MSFragger and Sage, enables some fun applications for open modification searching (a not-quite-as-fast homage to @nesvilab.bsky.social & @fcyucn.bsky.social's work), and immunopeptidomics.

Better yet, Comet-FI can be used wherever Comet is used! uwpr.github.io/Comet/

Comet's open-source Fragment-Ion Indexing work is live at JPR (@acs.org). @chrismcgann.bsky.social, Jimmy Eng and Erik Bergstrom showed how Comet could be dramatically sped up to keep pace with modern instrumentation and increasing sample sizes:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Congrats to @chrismcgann.bsky.social (and the other awardees) for receiving an @asms.org Graduate Student Travel Award!!

Photo credit to Katarina for capturing the moment!

Panelists in action leading discussions.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Real time MS bioinformatics hub yesterday! Great to chat about current and new directions! Here’s some action shots of Mathieu and Mike leading the discussion.

Impressive consistency with the same prompt too