The manuscript describing the work of the ProteomeBinders subgroup on data standards and exchange formats has finally been published. This paper focuses on the minimum information required for a protein affinity reagent experiment. The work was led by Sandra Orchard and Henning Hermajakob at the EBI. I've been interested in ontologies and data standards for some time, so its great to be able to put this into practise and help out on an important and emerging data format. The work is based off the well established PSI-MI (Molecular Interaction) data standards. This is built on to encompass the exchange of information about proteomics experiments that use affinity reagents such as antibodies.

The paper is available here.