MzTab-M: A Data Standard for Sharing Quantitative Results in Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics.

ABSTRACT: Mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the primary techniques used for large-scale analysis of small molecules in metabolomics studies. To date, there has been little data format standardization in this field, as different software packages export results in different formats represented in XML or plain text, making data sharing, database deposition, and reanalysis highly challenging. Working within the consortia of the Metabolomics Standards Initiative, Proteomics Standards Initiative, and the Metabolomics Society, we have created mzTab-M to act as a common output format from analytical approaches using MS on small molecules. The format has been developed over several years, with input from a wide range of stakeholders. mzTab-M is a simple tab-separated text format, but importantly, the structu

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660005 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature