Recent Development of Mass Spectrometric Technologies in Asia and Oceania.

The first Asia and Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference (AOMSC) organized by the Mass Spectrometry Society for Japan (MSSJ) was held in Tsukuba, Japan in 2010. The 2nd and 3rd AOMSC were held in Busan, Korea in 2011 and Kyoto, Japan in 2012; with the conferences organized by the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry (KSMS) and MSSJ, respectively. The continuous effort on the 4th AOMSC, was hosted and organized by Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry (TSMS) in July 10–12, 2013, at the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taiwan. More than 800 participants attended the conference, where they contributed 88 oral and 196 poster presentations and discussed current advances in mass spectrometry regarding fundamentals; instrumentation; methodology; interfacing to chromatographs; and a broad range of applications in emerging fields such as the environmental sciences, energy, food safety, forensics, nanomaterials, molecular imaging, clinic diagnoses, pharmaceuticals, biomedicine, quantitative proteomics, post-translational modifications, metabolomics, glycoproteomics, bioinformatics, and inorganic mass spectrometry.