Proteomics Standards Initiative
Encyclopedia
The Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) is a working group of HUPO
. It aims to define data standards for proteomics
in order to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.
PSI focuses on the following subjects:
Human Proteome Organization
The Human Proteome Organization is an international consortium of national proteomics research associations, government researchers, academic institutions, and industry partners...
. It aims to define data standards for proteomics
Proteomics
Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, as they are the main components of the physiological metabolic pathways of cells. The term "proteomics" was first coined in 1997 to make an analogy with...
in order to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.
PSI focuses on the following subjects:
- MIAPE, Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment, defines the metadata that should be provided along with a proteomics experiment.
- Data Markup LanguagesMarkup languageA markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. The idea and terminology evolved from the "marking up" of manuscripts, i.e. the revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts...
for encoding the data and metadata. - Ontologies for consistent annotation and representation.