FAIRsharing record for: Data Standard for Sharing Quantitative Results in Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics

This FAIRsharing record describes: Consortia efforts from the Metabolomics Standards Initiative, Proteomics Standards Initiative, and the Metabolomics Society have created mzTab-M to act as a common output format for analytical approaches using MS on small molecules. The intention of this specification, mzTab for Metabolomics (mzTab-M), is to extend the concepts established in the previous specification, so that more detail can be captured about the evidence trail for quantification, including MS features (different charge states or adducts) and the evidence trail for identifications, specifically for MS-based experiments on small molecules (metabolites, lipids, contaminants, etc.). mzTab-M is not formally backwards compatible, but follows a similar design pattern to simplify adaptation of existing software and to facilitate its integration into bioinformatics processing and submission workflows.