[Psidev-ms-dev] HUPO-PSI: Specification document PSI-MI Proforma v2.1 draft 02 - 30-day public review

[ricard-blum s. <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).

The Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Informatics Working Groups have 
submitted a new recommendation for a PSI standard, the ProForma 
(Proteoform and Peptidoform Notation) version 2.1 specification. This 
version is an update of ProForma version 2.0 which was ratified in 
February 2022. This update adds some options to describe more complex 
peptidoforms and is heavily rewritten te remove ambiguities and provide 
a better overview for implementors.

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 
December 10th, 2025.*

The version 2.1, draft 02 of the specification 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 December 10th, 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...