Standardising Proteomics Data – the work of the HUPO Proteomics Standards
Initiative |
Sandra Orchard* and Henning Hermjakob |
| EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK |
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E-mail: orchard@ebi.ac.uk |
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| Received April 03, 2008; Accepted April 09, 2008; Published April 20, 2008 |
Citation:Sandra O, Henning H (2008) Standardising Proteomics Data – the Work of the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative. J Proteomics Bioinform 1: 003-005. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000002 |
Copyright: © 2008 Sandra O, etal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, rovided the original author
and source are credited. |
| Abstract |
The HUPO Proteomics Standards initiative has dedicated the last 6 years to the design and implementation of common data reporting and
exchange standards enabling the transfer of proteomics data from originator to collaborator to a final public repository immediately
prior to publication. The user community is now benefiting from this work, with XML formats to exchange and import data into
databases, allowing direct access and comparability irrespective of the originating instrumentation. Public repositories now allow
researchers to view and search published experimental data and reference datasets are becoming available for benchmarking purposes.
Collaborations between databases are exposing these datasets to an ever increasing audience and enabling exciting new science to be
derived from existing data. |