title: Metriculator: quality assessment for mass spectrometry-based proteomics.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Quality control in mass spectrometry-based proteomics remains subjective, labor-intensive and inconsistent between laboratories. We introduce Metriculator, a software designed to facilitate long-term storage of extensive performance metrics as introduced by NIST in 2010. Metriculator features a web interface that generates interactive comparison plots for contextual understanding of metric values and an automated metric generation toolkit. The comparison plots are designed for at-a-glance determination of outliers and trends in the datasets, together with relevant statistical comparisons. Easy-to-use quantitative comparisons and a framework for integration plugins will encourage a culture of quality assurance within the proteomics community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Available under the MIT license at http://github.com/princelab/metriculator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Systems, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Jamison
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dance
authors.forename: Russ J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Prince
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000592:standards*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D012984:Software