The HUPO initiative on Model Organism Proteomes, iMOP

• Published in: Proteomics (Weinheim) Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 340 - 345
• Main Authors: Jones, Alexandra M. E., Aebersold, Ruedi, Ahrens, Christian H., Apweiler, Rolf, Baerenfaller, Katja, Baker, Mark, Bendixen, Emøke, Briggs, Steve, Brownridge, Philip, Brunner, Erich, Daube, Michael, Deutsch, Eric W., Grossniklaus, Ueli, Heazlewood, Joshua, Hengartner, Michael O., Hermjakob, Henning, Jovanovic, Marko, Lawless, Craig, Lochnit, Günter, Martens, Lennart, Ravnsborg, Christian, Schrimpf, Sabine P., Shim, Yhong-Hee, Subasic, Deni, Tholey, Andreas, van Wijk, Klaas, von Mering, Christian, Weiss, Manuel, Zheng, Xue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 01.02.2012; WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Laboratory; Arabidopsis - chemistry; Data standardization; Databases, Protein; Human Proteome Organisation; Humans; Model organisms; Models, Animal; Organisms; Proteome; Proteomics; Proteomics initiative
• ISSN: 1615-9853; 1615-9861
• DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201290014

The community working on model organisms is growing steadily and the number of model organisms for which proteome data are being generated is continuously increasing. To standardize efforts and to make optimal use of proteomics data acquired from model organisms, a new Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) initiative on model organism proteomes (iMOP) was approved at the HUPO Ninth Annual World Congress in Sydney, 2010. iMOP will seek to stimulate scientific exchange and disseminate HUPO best practices. The needs of model organism researchers for central databases will be better represented, catalyzing the integration of proteomics and organism‐specific databases. Full details of iMOP activities, members, tools and resources can be found at our website http://www.imop.uzh.ch/ and new members are invited to join us.