The ProteomeXchange consortium at 10 years: 2023 update

Abstract

Mass spectrometry (MS) is by far the most used experimental approach in high-throughput proteomics. The ProteomeXchange (PX) consortium of proteomics resources (http://www.proteomexchange.org) was originally set up to standardize data submission and dissemination of public MS proteomics data. It is now 10 years since the initial data workflow was implemented. In this manuscript, we describe the main developments in PX since the previous update manuscript in Nucleic Acids Research was published in 2020. The six members of the Consortium are PRIDE, PeptideAtlas (including PASSEL), MassIVE, jPOST, iProX and Panorama Public. We report the current data submission statistics, showcasing that the number of datasets submitted to PX resources has continued to increase every year. As of June 2022, more than 34 233 datasets had been submitted to PX resources, and from those, 20 062 (58.6%) just in the last three years. We also report the development of the Universal Spectrum Identifiers and the improvements in capturing the experimental metadata annotations. In parallel, we highlight that data re-use activities of public datasets continue to increase, enabling connections between PX resources and other popular bioinformatics resources, novel research and also new data resources. Finally, we summarise the current state-of-the-art in data management practices for sensitive human (clinical) proteomics data.

Carbon Fixation in the Chemolithoautotrophic Bacterium Aquifex aeolicus Involves Two Low-Potential Ferredoxins as Partners of the PFOR and OGOR Enzymes

“…The mass spectrometry raw data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium [ 67 ] ( ) via the PRIDE [ 68 ] partner repository, with the dataset identifier PXD040248, accessed on 18 February 2023.…”

Trans-Proteomic Pipeline: Robust Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Data Analysis Suite

“…Although the TPP does not use the Proteomics Standards Initiative − (PSI) standard format mzIdentML internally, the final output of a TPP analysis may be exported to mzIdentML 1.2 via the TPP tool tpp2mzid for deposition to ProteomeXchange − repositories or for use with other mzIdentML-supporting tools. In the other direction, users may use the ProteoWizard idconvert tool (bundled with TPP) to convert externally acquired mzIdentML files to pepXML for further TPP processing.…”

The 2023 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and the online molecular biology database collection

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