Common interchange standards for proteomics data: Public availability of tools and schema.
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.
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EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. orchard@ebi.ac.uk
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Henning
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Julian
Randall K
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Runte
Kai
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Sherman
David
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Wojcik
Jérôme
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Zhu
Weimin
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Apweiler
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