Activities

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Activities

2011

• Created a draft document attempting to briefly summarize minimum requirements for publication of proteomics data for plant journals. We are currently examining the viability of distributing such a document.

• Included the Arabidopsis Gelmap database as a track in the MASCP Gator. The database provides a visual interface proteins identified by gel based proteomics.

• Added the P3DB database as a new track to the MASCP Gator. this included published phosphorylation data as well as cross species orthology phosphopeptide matches to identify conserved sites in Arabidopsis

• New iMOP website up and running iMOP

• Presented at MASC Subcommittees workshop at ICAR 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

• Invited Stefanie Wienkoop (University of Vienna, Austria) to join the MASCP subcommittee

• updated the MASCP goals outlining the subcommittees accomplishments since its formation.

2010

• Rolland Norbert (CEA, France) and Steve Briggs (University of California, San Diego) join MASCP

• MASCP Gator, the Arabidopsis proteomics aggregation portal, accepted for publication by Plant Physiology

• Added Fulbright fellowship opportunities (USA)

• Arabidopsis Proteomics Aggregator (MASCP Gator) is complete. Check out the utility here.

• Initiated formal interactions with HUPO regarding the involvement of MASCP with the formal development of proteomic standards in model organisms. Such a proposal will attempt to standardize efforts and make optimum use of the proteomics data for improved mining and cross species comparisons.

• Workshop held at ICAR 2010 attracted about 100 participants. An interesting discussions concerning data storage and making proteomics information available to the wider community followed the presentations by MASCP members.

• Proteomics workshop at ICAR 2010 (Yokohama, Japan) on Monday 7th June at 12:45. All Welcome.

• Appointment of Katja Baerenfaller Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland to the subcommittee.

• Added information for Fellowship opportunities for Germany and Australia.

• Appointment of Nicolas Taylor from the University of Western Australia to the subcommittee.

• Arabidopsis Proteomics Aggregator (MASCP Gator) close to completion. Will provide a portal allowing basic protein information (mostly derived from proteomic studies) to be displayed for a given AGI.

2008 - 2009

• Commenced the coordinated development of an Arabidopsis proteomics aggregator portal amongst MASCP members (more news soon) - 2009

• Ported existing html based MASCP website to MediaWiki layout enabling members to edit content - 2009

• Held inaugural MASCP dinner for members (Edinburgh , 2009)

• Appointment of Waltraud Schulze from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology to the subcommittee - 2009

• Proteomics workshop held at ICAR2009 in Edinburgh, UK

• Proteomics workshop held at ICAR2008 in Montreal, Canada

2006 - 2007

Subcommittee members have been involved in several initiatives to develop databases and software tools for the exploitation of Arabidopsis proteomics data:

• A database for the subcellular location of Arabidopsis proteins (SUBA). The database houses large scale proteomic and GFP localisation sets from cellular compartments of Arabidopsis.

• A repository of searchable MS/MS spectra as a protein/peptide-reference library for the Arabidopsis thaliana proteome integrating different levels of molecular organization including metabolites, pathways, and transcript expression (ProMEX).

• Tools for the protein database-independent identification of MS/MS spectra in order to allow improving genome annotation with proteomics data (Qualscore).

These are only three examples, further web resources can be found by following links in the Databases menu.