FAIRsharing record for: mzTab

This FAIRsharing record describes: The aim of the format is to present the results of a proteomics experiment in a computationally accessible overview. The aim is not to provide the detailed evidence for these results, or allow recreating the process which led to the results. Both of these functions are established through links to more detailed representations in other formats, in particular mzIdentML and mzQuantML. mzTab is meant to be a light-weight, tab-delimited file format for proteomics data. The target audience for this format are primarily researchers outside of proteomics. It should be easy to parse and only contain the minimal information required to evaluate the results of a proteomics experiment. One of the goals of this file format is that it, for example, should be possible for a biologist to open such a file in Excel and still be able to "see" the data. This format should also become a way to disseminate proteomics results through protocols such as DAS.

本FAIRsharing记录描述如下：该文件格式的设计目标是以便于计算机读取的概览形式呈现蛋白质组学（proteomics）实验的结果，其初衷并非为这些结果提供详细佐证，亦无法支持重现产生该结果的实验流程。上述两类功能可通过链接至其他格式（尤其是mzIdentML与mzQuantML）的更详细表征文件实现。mzTab旨在成为面向蛋白质组学数据的轻量级制表符分隔文件格式，其目标受众主要为蛋白质组学领域以外的研究人员。该格式应具备易于解析的特性，且仅包含评估蛋白质组学实验结果所需的最少信息量。该文件格式的目标之一，举例而言，是让生物学家能够在Excel软件中打开此类文件并直观查看其中数据。此外，该格式亦应成为通过DAS等协议传播蛋白质组学研究结果的载体。