This workshop is part of the Building Blocks, Biological Pathways, and Networks NIH Roadmap initiative http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/buildingblocks/index.asp. The general goal of this meeting is to develop a community based plan and mechanisms for its implementation, for the consistent analysis, representation, dissemination and publication of proteomic data.

MEETING GOALS

• Put the community, including researchers, funding agencies, and journals, on a sound path towards establishing standards for the description of proteomic experiments and data presentation.
• Establish mechanisms for implementing standards.
• Assess the available software tools for the analysis of proteomic data and outline mechanisms for the dissemination and support of open source proteomic software tools.
• Generate a plan for implementing guidelines for publication and presentation of proteomic data and experiments.
• Generate a document that describes the available tools and guidelines for the publication and presentation of proteomic data and experiments.