TY - JOUR
T1 - qcML
T2 - an exchange format for quality control metrics from mass spectrometry experiments
AU - Walzer, Mathias
AU - Pernas, Lucia Espona
AU - Nasso, Sara
AU - Bittremieux, Wout
AU - Nahnsen, Sven
AU - Kelchtermans, Pieter
AU - Pichler, Peter
AU - van den Toorn, Henk W P
AU - Staes, An
AU - Vandenbussche, Jonathan
AU - Mazanek, Michael
AU - Taus, Thomas
AU - Scheltema, Richard A
AU - Kelstrup, Christian D
AU - Gatto, Laurent
AU - van Breukelen, Bas
AU - Aiche, Stephan
AU - Valkenborg, Dirk
AU - Laukens, Kris
AU - Lilley, Kathryn S
AU - Olsen, Jesper Velgaard
AU - Heck, Albert J R
AU - Mechtler, Karl
AU - Aebersold, Ruedi
AU - Gevaert, Kris
AU - Vizcaino, Juan Antonio
AU - Hermjakob, Henning
AU - Kohlbacher, Oliver
AU - Martens, Lennart
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Quality control is increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of mass spectrometry based proteomics. Several recent papers discuss relevant parameters for quality control and present applications to extract these from the instrumental raw data. What has been missing, however, is a standard data exchange format for reporting these performance metrics. We therefore developed the qcML format, an XML-based standard that follows the design principles of the related mzML, mzIdentML, mzQuantML, and TraML standards from the HUPO-PSI (Proteomics Standards Initiative). In addition to the XML format, we also provide tools for the calculation of a wide range of quality metrics as well as a database format and interconversion tools, so that existing LIMS systems can easily add relational storage of the quality control data to their existing schema. We here describe the qcML specification, along with possible use cases and an illustrative example of the subsequent analysis possibilities.
AB - Quality control is increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of mass spectrometry based proteomics. Several recent papers discuss relevant parameters for quality control and present applications to extract these from the instrumental raw data. What has been missing, however, is a standard data exchange format for reporting these performance metrics. We therefore developed the qcML format, an XML-based standard that follows the design principles of the related mzML, mzIdentML, mzQuantML, and TraML standards from the HUPO-PSI (Proteomics Standards Initiative). In addition to the XML format, we also provide tools for the calculation of a wide range of quality metrics as well as a database format and interconversion tools, so that existing LIMS systems can easily add relational storage of the quality control data to their existing schema. We here describe the qcML specification, along with possible use cases and an illustrative example of the subsequent analysis possibilities.
U2 - 10.1074/mcp.M113.035907
DO - 10.1074/mcp.M113.035907
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24760958
SN - 1535-9476
VL - 13
SP - 1905
EP - 1913
JO - Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
JF - Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
IS - 8
ER -