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The PSI Quality Control workgroup is one of the working groups of the Proteomics Standards Initiative.
Quality Control Group Charter
The PSI-QC working group is composed of academic, government, and industry researchers, software developers, journal representatives, and instrument manufacturers. The main goal of the PSI-QC working group is to define a community data format and associated controlled vocabulary terms, facilitating data exchange and archiving of mass spectrometry derived quality control metrics.
If you want to know more, please visit here for our full group charter.
Group Structure (2021)
Role |
Current Incumbent |
| Chair | David L. Tabb |
| Co-chair | Mathias Walzer, Wout Bittremieux |
| Ontology Co-ordinator | Julian Uszkoreit |
| Website Maintainer | Mathias Walzer |
| MaxQuant liaison | Chris Bielow |
| Editor | Stefan Tenzer |
Documents and websites
Please find the collection of official documents on the group's documents page.
You can find more information, metrics, software, and older versions of the mzQC format, term definitions, and metric designs on our HUPO-PSI GitHub page.
Getting Involved
If you would like to contribute to the work of the Quality Control workgroup, or just to receive the occasional email when a new version of a format becomes available, please contact us on psidev-qc-dev [at] lists.sourceforge.net or visit our GitHub repository.
Acknowledgements
The group's collective gratitude is expressed to everyone involved in the creation of the specification document!
In addition to the specification document authors, the following people contributed to format development, reviewed the specification document, or tested mzQC:
- Martin Eisenacher, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Juan Antonio Vizcaino, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
- Steffen Neumann, IPB Halle
- Nils Hoffmann, Bielefeld University
- Tim Van Den Bossche, Ghent University
We also want to thank Jinmeng Jia, Marina Pauw, Peter Crowther, Stefan Tenzer, Paul Brack, Weimin Zhu, Timo Sachsenberg, Eralp Dogu, and Axel Walter for contributing ideas and suggestions during the PSI-QC working group meetings.