[Psidev-qc-dev] HUPO-PSI: Specification document PSI-MI FeatureTab v1.0 draft 02 - 30-day public review

[Sylvie R. <syl...@un...>]

Dear colleagues, dear members of the HUPO-PSI community,

The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) develops standards  for 
documentation and storage of proteomics, glycomics and interaction data 
(see http://www.psidev.info for an overview of activities).

Members of the Molecular Interactions Working Group have submitted a new 
recommendation for a PSI standard, *PSI-MI FeatureTab*, *an exchange 
format for molecular interaction features*. The PSI-MI FeatureTab format 
is part of the PSI-MI 2.5 standard. It is related to the tabular format 
provided by PSI MITAB 2.5 and subsequent updates. However, while the PSI 
MITAB 2.5 describes binary interactions, one pair of interactors per 
row, in the PSI-MI FeatureTab each row is feature centric and describes 
in detail a specific feature at the participant level and the effect of 
a feature, if any, on the second participant.

After having passed a 14-day review by two members of the PSI steering 
committee, who suggested minor changes, the proposed specification now 
goes through the 30-day public and external review, which should end on 
August 16th, 2025 but is *extended to August 31st, 2025 *due to  summer 
holidays.

The draft of the specification (version 1.0, draft 02) is attached to 
this e-mail.

This message is to encourage you to contribute to the standards 
development activity by commenting on the document. We invite both 
positive and negative comments on the relevance, correctness, clarity 
and appropriateness of the specification (e.g. is it presented in 
accordance with the templates and clearly written, is it sufficiently 
detailed and comprehensively described and are the examples in agreement 
with the specification?). Comments can be made on the specification as a 
whole or on specific parts.

If you do not feel experienced enough to comment on this document, but 
know colleagues who are, please feel free to forward this message to 
them. There is no requirement that people commenting should have had any 
prior contact with the PSI.

*Please send comments by e-mail directly to 
syl...@un... before August 31st, 2025.*

I thank you very much in advance for your contribution and time.

Kind regards.

Professor Sylvie RICARD-BLUM, HUPO-PSI Editor
Pericellular and Extracellular Supramolecular Assemblies
UMR 5246 CNRS - University Lyon 1
Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 novembre 1918
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Phone: +33(0)6 82 02 44 22
E-mail: syl...@un...