title: Common interchange standards for proteomics data: Public availability of tools and schema.
abstract: The Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) aims to define community standards for data representation in proteomics and to facilitate data comparision, exchange and verification. To this end, a Level 1 Molecular Interaction XML data exchange format has been developed which has been accepted for publication and is freely available at the PSI website (http.//psidev.sf.net/). Several major protein interaction databases are already making data available in this format. A draft XML interchange format for mass spectrometry data has been written and is currently undergoing evaluation whilst work is ongoing to develop a proteomics data integration model, MIAPE.
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. orchard@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Orchard
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hermjakob
authors.forename: Randall K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Julian
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Runte
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sherman
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wojcik
authors.forename: Weimin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Apweiler
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D040901:Proteomics; D012984:Software