Collaboration on Support for Proteomics Data Standards

24-Aug-2005

GenoLogics Life Sciences Software Inc. announced its commitment and support for the adoption of a proteomics data interchange standard. Proteomics projects increasingly involve researchers with diverse lab experiments and data exchanges can create compatibility issues affecting interpretation and reproducibility. To help overcome this challenge, GenoLogics is collaborating with a range of organizations and is involved in a number of initiatives to advance a common data standard and to foster the exchange of ideas among the commercial, open source and academic communities.

GenoLogics, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), HUPO - Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI), the University of Pennsylvania - Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT), the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and LabKey Software LLC, are teaming together to develop a demonstration model to showcase the benefits of proteomics data standards. A working example of a comprehensive suite of integrated software tools, lab information and data management and a proteomics data repository, all based on a common standard, will be showcased in Fall 2005. Data integrity and efficiency of data analysis are among the benefits that will be realized with a common standard.

GenoLogics also has other initiatives underway to support convergence of a common data standard. GenoLogics is partnering with PSI at HUPO in Munich and Geneva to sponsor meetings and participate in furthering the goal of defining community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification. Furthermore, GenoLogics is spearheading a cross functional team of academic and commercial interests to continue moving forwards the alignment of PSI and FuGE standards.

The ISB and GenoLogics are collaborating to increase the widespread use of ISB's open source data analysis software tools. The two organizations have developed the roadmap to integrate the ISB tools and GenoLogics ProteusLIMSä to broaden the reach of the tools for a wider group of researchers. In addition, GenoLogics is working closely with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to ensure that they have an extensible environment to share the data with other research centers of excellence.

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