Mission Statement

The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) defines community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification. The PSI was founded at the HUPO meeting in Washington, April 28-29, 2002 (see Science 296, 827).

News

• To request new CV term/s to be added to the PSI-MS Controlled Vocabulary, please fill this form.
• To request new CV term/s to be added to the PSI-SEP Controlled Vocabulary, please fill this form.
• The next HUPO-PSI spring meeting will take place in Seoul, South Korea, March 28-30, 2010. Registration is already open.
• The Proteomics journal has created a Virtual Issue on Standardardisation in Proteomics.

• A PSI workshop took place during the HUPO initiatives day, September 26, 2009, part of the HUPO world congress 2009, in Toronto.
• The PSI Spring workshop took place Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, April 29, 2009, in Turku, Finland.
• It was preceded by the second HUPO Joint PSI/Publication Committee workshop, Sunday, April 26, 2009. 

   

Work groups

The main organisational unit of the Proteomics Standards Initiative is the work group. Currently, there are the following work groups:

• Protein Separation (PS)
  
• Mass Spectrometry (MS)
  
• Molecular Interactions (MI)
• Protein Modifications (MOD)
  
• Proteomics Informatics (PI)

Inter-group activities

To ensure consistency between work group deleverables, the PSI also maintains the following inter-group activities:

• Controlled vocabularies
  
• Steering Committee
• MIAPE
  

Organisation

To know the roles and responsibilities inside the different PSI workgroups, please visit this link.

Project status

The following table summarises the status of the PSI activities:

Acknowledgements

PSI activities have been/are supported by:

• The Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO).
• The European Science Foundation (ESF).
• The EBI Industry Programme.
  
• The HUPO Plasma Proteome Project.
• EU ProDaC grant (LSHG-CT-2006-036814).
• Sporsors of the PSI Meetings/Workshops: Agilent Technologies, American Chemical Society, Applied Biosystems, BBSRC, Bruker Daltonics, DKFZ, EBI Industry Program, Eli Lilly, GE Healthcare, Genebio, Genologics, I-HUPO, IPSoc, Novartis, Roche, Serono, Syngenta, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Swiss Proteomics Society, Thermo Electron.