Based on the work of the Human Proteomics Organisation (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) and the experience of the HUPO Brain Proteome Project (HUPO BPP), ProDaC will coordinate the development and implementation of international standards for the representation of high-performance proteomics data. Focus is the standardised data collection, and furthermore the standardised data analysis of protein identification by mass spectrometry.

    The basis to develop an international data exchange network of proteomics data repositories will be established. This will include the implementation of prototypes of automated data submission pipelines in the leading European laboratories.

    In total, 12 core partners, all well-known European Bioinformatics groups and proteomics laboratories will participate over the whole 30 months runtime of this project. Enhancing this efforts data providers, experienced European proteomics laboratories, will provide appropriate data derived from state-of-the-art proteomics technologies for proof-of-concept and utilise the newly developed software tools in the next stage.

    Additionally, international, non-EU laboratories, both academic and commercial, will utilise the tools as associated partners in the third phase of the planned activities, and thus benefit from the standardised data repositories developed, to generally observe and guide the standards development.

    The whole process will be accompanied by a number of high-ranking scientific journals, which will be actively involved in the standards development, and will define mandatory supplementary information for submitting articles.