mzML [handling editors: Norman Paton / Christian Stephan]
final (ver 1.0.0): June 1st, 2008
update, begin of public and external review phase: April 17th, 2009
update, final (ver 1.1.0): June 1st, 2009
without DocProc?: update of index wrapper schema (ver 1.1.1.): June 1st, 2010

MIAPE Column Chromatography [handling editor: Norman Paton]

PEFF community practice document [handling editor: Norman Paton]
submission (v1.0-1): August 14th, 2008
Resubmission as a new proposal (1.0.): April 3rd, 2018 [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Start of 30-days steering group comment phase: April 4th, 2018
Deadline for corrections and comments: May 4th, 2018
Suggested minor changes: January 22nd, 2019
Start of 60-days public and external phase review: January 25th, 2019
End of the 60-days public and external phase review: March 25th, 2019.
Submission of the revised version: April 5th, 2019
Approval by external reviewers: April 20th, 2019
Finalization of specification document /specification document available: April 24th, 2019
Final announcement via mailing list: April 2019

MIAPE Gel Informatics [handling editor: Norman Paton]

AnalysisXML / mzIdentML [handling editors: Norman Paton / Christian Stephan]
begin of external and public review (AnalysisXML): February 27th, 2009
final (mzIdentML ver 1.0.0): < August 13th, 2009
update, final (mzIdentML ver 1.1.0): September 12th, 2011

mzIdentML 1.2 [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
submission: July 27th, 2016

PSI-PAR [handling editor: Christian Stephan]
begin of external and public review: April 7th, 2009
final: < August 13th, 2009

TraML [handling editor: Christian Stephan]

mzQuantML [first handling editor: Christian Stephan]
submitted (ver 1.0.0-rc1): August 2011
begin of external and public review: December 12th, 2011
end of external and public review: Feb / March 2012?
[acting handling editor from Nov 2012 onwards, Pierre-Alain Binz]
resubmission (ver 1.0.0-rc2): June 2012
resubmission (ver 1.0.0-rc3) in response to minor corrections
final release (ver 1.0.0): February 2nd, 2013

mzQuantML 1.0.1 [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
submission: March 19th, 2015
consideration of changes, decision: minor update from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
begin of 14-days public comment phase: March 27th, 2015
deadline for corrections and comments: April 12th, 2015
incorporation of minor comments: April 2015
finalization of specification document / migration of files to github / specification document available: October 2015
final announcement via mailing list: January 2016

MIAPE-MS update type b [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
submission (ver 2.97.8): before April 2012
begin of external and public review: June 4th, 2012
(comments received from two invited reviewers and two journal editors as public reviewers)
end of external and public review: July 16th, 2012
revision (version 2.98): July 24th, 2012
final (version 2.98): August 15th, 2012

MIAPE-Quant [handling editors: Christian Stephan / Martin Eisenacher]
submission of version 0.9.1
begin of external and public review: February 22nd, 2012
(July 2012: prolongation of public and external review due to web page problems and lack of reviews)
(comments received from two invited and one public reviewer => major revisions)
end of external and public review: August, 14th, 2012
major revision (version 0.9.2_RC) sent into shortend “14 day public review”: September 17th, 2012
accepted: October 18th, 2012; final version 1.0 released on October 24th, 2012)

mzTab [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
submission: June 7th, 2012
end steering commitee review: August 1st, 2012
begin of external and public review: August 13th, 2012
(comments received from two invited reviewers, one steering committee member, and two public commenters  => major revision)
end of external and public review: November 5th, 2012 (was prolonged, first deadline: October 12th, 2012)
begin of 14-days-resubmission R2 external and public review: March 10th, 2013
end of 14-days-resubmission R2 external and public review: March 24th, 2013
(comments received from two invited reviewers, one steering committee member, and four public commenters  => minor revision, then Final after Editor approval)
re-submission of R3: December 2013 (unexpected restructuring => previous decision changed to major revision and 30-days public and external review)
begin of 30-days-resubmission R3 external and public review: after Christmas break 2014
end of 30-days-resubmission R3 external and public review: April 4th, 2014 (prolonged twice, first deadline: February 14th, 2014)
(comments received from one invited reviewers and three of the previous commenters  => minor revision, wait for changes due to journal reviewers, then Final after Editor Approval)
re-submission of R4: June 20th, 2014 (minor changes after DocProc review and journal review)
After inspection of changes by PSI editor recommendation to the steering committee on August 20th, 2014: accept the mzTab specification R4 without further changes.
acceptance: September 2nd, 2014 (final version 1.0.0 as of June 20th, 2014 was announced September 15th, 2014)

proBED [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
original submission: July 7th, 2016
end of steering commitee review: August 22nd, 2016 (minor changes requested)
begin of 60-days public and invited review phase: October 20th, 2016
end of 60-days public and invited review: December 19th, 2016
(comments received from two invited reviewers and one public commenter => request: implementation of minor comments and validator tool for commonly expected errors, then 14-days public and invited review)
begin of 14-days-resubmission R1 public and invited review: February 27th, 2017
deadline for 14-days-resubmission R1 public and invited review: March 13th, 2017
acceptance: final version 1.0.0 as of March 13th, 2017 (was announced April 13th, 2017)

proBAM [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
original submission: December 21th, 2016
end of steering commitee review: February 13th, 2017 (minor changes requested, to be implemented before public review phase)
begin of 60-days public and invited review: March 30th, 2017
end of 60-days public and invited review: May 31st, 2017
(comments received from three invited reviewers and one public commenter, suggestion to steering group: implementation of major changes, then 3-weeks public and re-invitation of reviewers for revised version)
begin of 3-weeks-resubmission R1 public and invited review: October 25th, 2017
end of 3-weeks-resubmission R1 public and invited review: November 15th, 2017
(comments received from the reviewers, suggestion to steering group: implement the last change request, no further review)
acceptance of resubmission R2, switch document status to Version 1.0.0 FINAL: December 1st, 2017 (will be announced after synchronized journal publication)
in FINAL document after synchronized journal publication goo.gl short URLs have been changed to point to zipped versions of example files (January 2018)
announced 14th March 2018

PSI-MI XML 3.0 [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
original submission: June 7th, 2017
end of steering commitee review: July 19th, 2017 (shortened SG review) (minor changes requested, to be implemented before public review phase)
begin of 60-days public and invited review: July 28th, 2017
end of 60-days public and invited review: October 17th, 2017
(comments received from three invited reviewers => request: “minor changes” from the authors which the editor will review after resubmission – no further review by invited reviewers and the public)
resubmission: February 18th, 2018 (also having synchronized with journal publication)
small changes due to editor (readability)
specification set to final: April 5th, 2018

mzTab-M 2.0 FOR METABOLOMICS [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum with Warwick Dunn as a de facto MSI Editor]
Original submission: October 31st, 2018
End of steering committee review: November 30th, 2018 (minor changes requested)
Comments received from one invited reviewer: minor changes requested from the authors. Changes following the PSI review were synchronized with those suggested by the reviewers of Analytical Chemistry
Resubmission: March 15th, 2019
Specification set to final: March 28th, 2019

Universal Spectrum Identifier (USI) [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
original submission: July 10th, 2020
end of steering commitee review: August 17th, 2020 (minor changes requested, to be implemented before the public review phase)
begin of 60-days public and invited review: October 19th, 2020
end of 60-days public and invited review: December 18th, 2020 (discussed recommendations to authors with steering group, sent comments and recommendations to authors in January 2021)
resubmission, check of changes by reviewers: July 15th, 2021
finalization of standard: July, 22nd 2021

mzQC – quality control [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher, then Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission (Version 1.0.0 DRAFT): December 13th, 2020
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: January 20th, 2021
End of the 14-day review by the steering committee: February 3rd, 2021 (some changes requested to authors in February 2021 to be OKed by the specific SC reviewers before going on to the next phase)
<Editor switch to Sylvie Ricard-Blum on July 27th, 2021
Comments from two steering committee members sent to the authors on July 29th, 2021
Revised version sent to two steering committee members on August 2nd, 2021
Comments from the 2 steering committee members, asking for integration of the QC CV with the PSI-MS CV, sent to the authors on August 6th, 2021
Revised version received on June 8th, 2022
Start of the 60-day external and public review phase: July 6th, 2022 – sent to 3 external reviewers
End of the 60-day external and public review phase: September 5th, 2022 – Last review received on October 6th, 2022
Comments sent to the authors sent on October 7th, 2022
Revised version received on December 12th, 2023, sent to external reviewers on December, 17th 2023 (deadline January 15th, 2024, last review received on February 20th, 2024) and approved by the three reviewers
Final version of the mzQC specification 1.0.0 received on February 21st, 2024 and officially released on February 21st, 2024

MI-TAB 2.8 [handling editor: Martin Eisenacher]
original submission: March 22nd, 2021
no steering commitee review, because minor update (only small formatting changes requested by PSI editor)
begin of 60-days public and invited review: April 26th, 2021
end of public and invited review: August 9th (was delayed because it was difficult to find reviewers); some questions / change requests, at least those of reviewers 2 and 3 will be send to them for re-review.

Proforma 2.0 [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission: October 24th, 2020
Start of 30-days steering group comment phase:  October 24th, 2020
Deadline for corrections and comments: November 24th, 2020
Suggested minor changes: revised version submitted on December 18th, 2020
Start of 60-days public and external phase review: December 26th, 2020
End of the 60-days public and external phase review, extended upon a reviewer’s request: March 19th, 2021
Submission of the revised version: November 29th, 2021
Approval by external reviewers: February 2nd, 2022
Finalization of specification document: February 3rd, 2022
Specification document available: March, 13th 2022
Final announcement via mailing list: March, 2022

mzPAF (Peak Annotation Format – Peptides) [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission (version 1.0, draft 09): January, 23th 2023
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: January, 29th 2023
Deadline for corrections and comments: February, 12th 2023
Minor changes suggested: February, 7th 2023
Submission of the revised version (version 1.0, draft 10): February, 25th 2023
Start of 45-day public and external review: March, 3rd, 2023
End of the 45-day public and external review: April, 18th, 2023
Comments from the public review phase sent to the authors on March 20th, 2023
Comments from two external invited reviewers sent to the authors on April 17th, 2023
Comments from the third external invited reviewer sent to the authors on May 6th, 2023
Revised version (version 1.0, draft14) sent by the authors: September 1st, 2023
Revised version sent to the reviewers: September 9th, 2023
Approval by 2 out the 3 external reviewers (the third one did not answer): October 10th, 2023
Finalization of specification document: on hold, waiting for reviews of the mzSpecLib specification and the journal article
Submission by the authors of the version 1.0, draft 15 including changes based on the input of two other contributors : October 16th, 2024.
Invitation of external reviewers: November 18th, 2024
Comments from the external reviewers sent to the authors on December 12th, 2024, January 17th and 28th, 2025
Revised version (version 1.0, draft 17) submitted by the authors on May 16th, 2025
Revised version sent to the external reviewers: May 19th, 2025
Comments from the external reviewers sent to the authors on June 20th, 2025
Revised version (version 1.0, draft 18) submitted by the authors on August 7th, 2025
Comment from the Editor sent to the authors on August 10th, 2025
Final version received on September 5th, 2025
Final announcement via mailing list: September, 22nd, 2025.

SDRF-Proteomics (Sample and Data Relationship Format for Proteomics)
[handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission (draft, version 1.0): November 27th, 2020
Start of the 30-day review by the steering committee: December 6th, 2020
Deadline for corrections and comments: January 6th, 2021
Minor changes suggested on January 7th, 2021 before the specification goes out for public review
Revised version (draft, version 1.0 ): March, 25th 2021
Start of the 60-day public and external review: April 24th, 2021
End of the 60-day public and external review: June 30th, 2021
Reviewer comments sent to the authors on July, 16th, 2021, August 2nd 2021
Revised version of SDRF-Proteomics (draft): May 6th, 2023
Responses to the comments of all the reviewers: May 15th, 2023
Minor changes requested by the editor: May 23rd, 2023
Finalization of the specification document: May 24th, 2023
Final announcement via mailing lists: November 21st, 2023

mzSpecLib: Mass Spectral Library Format [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission (version 1.0, draft 05): September 8th, 2023
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: September 10th, 2023
End of the 14-day review by the steering committee: September 24th, 2023
Comments sent to the authors: October 1st, 2023
Names of suggested reviewers sent by the authors: October 4th, 2023
Start of 30-day public and external review: October 7th, 2023
Version 1.0, draft 0.5 sent to four external invited reviewers: October 7th, 2023
End of the 30-day public and external review phase: November 8th, 2023
Third external review received December 5th, 2023
Public and external reviews sent to the authors: December 6th, 2023
Revised specification (version 1.0, draft 07) received on June 6th, 2024 and sent to reviewers on June 18th, 2024
Errors in the revised specification reported by one reviewer on June, 20th, 2024 and sent to the authors on August, 18th, 2024
Revised specification (version 1.0, draft 09) received on November, 1st, 2024 and sent to the reviewers on November 18th, 2024.
Comments from 2 out of 3 reviewers sent to the authors on January 17th, 2025
Revised specification (version 1.0, draft 10) received on May 30th, 2025 and sent to the reviewers on May 30th, 2025
Reviewer comments sent to the authors on June 23rd, 2025
Revised specification (version 1.0, draft 11) received on July 7th, 2025
Web page of the specification updated by the authors on August 7th, 2025
Final announcement via the PSI mailing list on September 22nd, 2025

mzIdentML 1.3.0 new functionality and support for additional use cases and its extension for crosslinking MS experiments (1.0.0)
[handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Original submission (drafts of version 1.3.0 and 1.0.0): September 20th, 2023
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: October 10th, 2023
Reminder sent to the SC members by the Editor: October 17th, 2023
One member volunteered but provided no comments
End of the review by the steering committee: January 7th, 2024 with the approval of the HUPO-PSI chair.
Comments from the Editor sent to the authors on January 7th, 2024
Revised version sent by the authors on February 7th, 2024
Start of the external and public review phase: February 21st, 2024
Invitation of external reviewers on February 21st, 2024
End of the external and public review phase: April 8th, 2024
No comments from the public review phase
Comments from the external reviewers sent to the authors on April 10th, 2024
Revised version received on May 15th, 2024 and sent to the external reviewers on May 19th, 2024
Comments of the reviewers on the revised version received on June 22nd, 2024 and sent to the authors the same day
All the concerns of the external reviewers having been addressed the drafts were made final on June 24th 2024
The final version of the specification mzIdentML 1.3.0 and of its extension for crosslinking data 1.0.0 were received on June 24th 2024.
Officially released via mailing list on July 4th, 2024.

PSI-MI TAB FeatureTab: exchange format for molecular interaction features
[handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Version 1.0, draft 01 submitted on June 3rd,2025
Minor changes requested by the Editor
Version 1.0, draft 01 resubmitted on June 6th,2025
Start of the Steering Committee internal review: June 9th, 2025
End of the Steering Committee internal review: June 23th, 2025
Comments sent to the authors: June 23rd, 2025
Revised version 1.0, draft 02 submitted: July 3rd, 2025
Names of suggested reviewers provided by the authors on July 14th, 2025
Invitation sent to three external reviewers: June 15th, 2025
Start of the public review phase: July 16th, 2025
End of the public review phase: August 31st, 2025
No comments received from the public review phase
Last external review received on September 18th, 2025
Reviewer comments sent to the authors on September 21st, 2025
Revised version 1.0 draft 03 submitted by the authors on October 26th, 2025
Revised version 1.0 draft 03 sent to the 3 external reviewers on October 26th, 2025
Comments of reviewers received on October 30st, November 5th, and November 25th, 2025
Comments sent to the authors on December 2nd, 2025
Final version received on January 7th, 2026
Officially released via the PSI mailing list on January 8th, 2026

Minimum Information Describing A Proteoform (MIDAP) – Minimum Information Document
[handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Version 1.0, draft 01 submitted on June 12th,2025
Start of the Steering Committee internal review: June 23th, 2025
End of the Steering Committee internal review: July 7th, 2025
Comments of one SC reviewer sent to the authors on July 9th, 2025
Reminders sent on July 8th, August 3rd and 10th, and September 6th, 2025 to the 2nd SC reviewer
Invitation of a 3rd SC reviewer on September 21st, 2025
Comments from the 3rd SC received on September 23rd, 2025 and sent to the authors on September 24th, 2025
Revised document received on February 4th, 2026
Minor changes requested by the Editor on February 6th, 2026
Revised version received on February 7th and sent to SC reviewers on February 8th, 2026
Comments from SC reviewers received on February 13th and 14th, sent to the authors on February 17th, 2026
Revised version received on February 26th and sent to SC reviewers on March 1st, 2026
No further comments of SC reviewers (March 3rd and 18th, 2026)
Document sent to three external reviewers on March 18th, 2026
Start of the public review phase: March 18th, 2026
End of the public review phase: April 19th, 2026
No comments from the Community during the public review phase
Comments of 2 external reviewers received on April 19th and 29th, 2026
Sent to the authors on April 29th, 2026

ProForma version 2.1 (Proteoform and Peptidoform Notation)
[handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
Version 2.1 draft 01 submitted on September 16th,2025
Start of the Steering Committee internal review: September 22nd, 2025
End of the Steering Committee internal review: October 5th, 2025
Comments of the internal reviewers sent to the authors on October 5th, 2025
Revised version 2.1 draft 02 submitted to the authors on October 29th, 2025
Revised version 2.1 draft 02 sent to the internal reviewers on October 30th, 2025
Comments of internal reviewers received on November 10th, 2025
Revised version 2.1 draft 02 sent to 3 external reviewers on November 10th, 2025
Start of the public review phase: November 10th, 2025
4 external reviewers invited,3 agreed to review the specification, 1 did not reply
End of the public review phase: December 10th, 2025
Comments from two external reviewers received on December 24th and 29th, 2025
Sent to the authors on January 3rd, 2026
Comments from the third external reviewer received on January 10th, 2026. Sent to the authors on the same day
One comment from the community received on January 14th, 2026. Sent to the authors on the same day
Revised version (version 2.1 draft 03) received on March, 26th, 2026
Sent to the three external reviewers on March 29th, 2026
Comments of two reviewers received on April 1st and 21st,sent to the authors on April 22nd, 2026
Comments of the third reviewer received on April 24th, sent to the authors on April 24th, 2026

Edited mzPAF (Peak Annotation Format – Peptides) [handling editor: Sylvie Ricard-Blum]
The authors updated the x-ion formula, fixed some reference ion formulas/masses and added one contributor and precision about spectra acquired in the negative ion mode.
Original submission (version 1.0, draft 01): January, 23th 2026
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: January 31st, 2026
Reviews received on January 31st, 2026 and March 9th, 2026
Comments suggesting very minor changes sent to the authors on March 12th, 2026
Submission of the revised version (version 1.0.1): March 24th, 2026
Start of 14-day public review: March 27th, 2026
End of the 14-day public: April 10th, 2026
Start of the 14-day review by the steering committee: January 31st, 2026
Reviews received on January 31st, 2026 and March 9th, 2026
Comments suggesting very minor changes sent to the authors on March 12th, 2026
Submission of the revised version (version 1.0, draft 04): March 24th, 2026
Start of 14-day public review: March 27th, 2026
End of the 14-day public: April 10th, 2026
No comments from the public review phase
Final version received on May 5th, 2026
Final announcement via mailing list on May 7th, 2026