AMMRL members:
I can summarize what I heard at the following discussion group at ENC in Providence.
>- New Experiments/Techniques: The role of the NMR manager in bringing new
>techniques into the lab, and how we try to ensure our users are using the
>best NMR experiments/sequences in their research.
1. An important consensus of the group is that members of AMMRL should not hesitate to post questions or comments about new techniques/sequences. Not posting reduces our reading load, but the point of AMMRL to generate discussion, and assist each other in an informal manner, and any question you post likely will have many others out there wondering about the same, or similar, issues.
2. We all agreed, perhaps to different extents, that postings on websites of sequences used (just names if standard sequences provided by vendors, with more detail--full sequence code best if possible--for customized or new sequences) would be very useful.
3. There was some discussion about a Bruker analog to Varian's Userlib. NMRFAM makes a number of Bruker sequences available: http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/pulse_seq/spec_bruker.html. And other personal/facility websites similarly provide Bruker sequences. I have made pdf (and non-posted Word) listings of all Bruker-provided sequences for AC spectrometers--which allows for searching an simpler review--and could do similar for the AVANCE sequences, if this would be useful. Perhaps Bruker has some repository I am unaware of.
4. For any vendors (including JEOL, Tecmag, etc.), it is useful to know recommendations from users as to the "best" sequences to use. Best in this context simply means that person/group/facility has used the sequence, and finds that it works properly. It may (or not, as the case may be) appear to be superior in some way to alternative sequences. It was not defined from the discussion group how to generate or manage such recommendations.
5. The discussion group broke into suggestions of how to perhaps improve on the current email system. Perry Pellechia offered to setup a forum board; an evaluation of this on-going now.
Charlie
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Charles G. Fry, Ph.D. Tel: (608)262-3182
Director, MR Facility Fax: (608)262-0381
Chem. Dept., 1101 University Ave, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706 USA email: fry_at_chem.wisc.edu
Received on Tue May 03 2005 - 16:25:48 MST