PSI-QC: Quality Control Working Group
The PSI-QC working group is composed of academic researchers, bioinformatics software developers, and government researchers. The main goal of the PSI-QC working group is to provide a unifying framework for quality control information in biological mass spectrometry, by defining the community-driven standardized mzQC file format and associated controlled vocabulary terms. The PSI-QC working group is a community-driven effort that welcomes any contributions from interested researchers and supporters.
If you want to know more, please visit here for our full group charter.
Group Structure (2025)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair | Wout Bittremieux University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium |
| Co-chair | Mathias Walzer Scientist-at-large |
| Ontology coordinator | Julian Uszkoreit Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
| Chair emeritus | David L. Tabb University Medical Center of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands |
| MaxQuant liaison | Chris Bielow Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
The group’s collective gratitude is expressed to everyone involved in the creation of the specification document:
- Martin Eisenacher, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Nils Hoffmann, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Steffen Neumann, IPB Halle, Halle, Germany
- Reza Salek, The International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
- Tim Van Den Bossche, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Juan Antonio Vizcaino, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
We also want to thank Paul Brack, Peter Crowther, Eralp Dogu, Jinmeng Jia, Marina Pauw, Timo Sachsenberg, Stefan Tenzer, Axel Walter, and Weimin Zhu for contributing ideas and suggestions during the PSI-QC working group meetings, as well as many other periodic contributors who have contributed to format development, reviewed the specification document, or tested mzQC.
More Information
You can find additional details on the mzQC format, mzQC implementing software, and more information on the HUPO-PSI GitHub page.
Getting Involved
If you would like to contribute to the work of the Quality Control working group, or just to receive the occasional email when a new version of a format becomes available, please contact us on psidev-qc-dev@lists.sourceforge.net or visit our GitHub repository.