Evolution not revolution but interesting all the same

摘要

Once every 3 years both of the major meetings aimed at the mass spectrometry community are held. Not necessarily a bad situation but in days of reduced funds available both for practicising scientists and commercial activists it could lead to a choice of which to attend, however both organising committees have taken a pragmatic view on this and focussed on making the meetings affordable since without the end-users the commercial side of the proceedings will not contribute to the same degree. Members of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) were charged only $150 and this no doubt helped the attendance of conferees to be almost similar in number, ca 6,500, to the 2008 number.