Proteomics Standards
The use of proteomics standards has been discussed at some length by HUPO and the ABRF. During the Seoul meeting of the HUPO Industry Advisory Board, the overall consensus seemed to be that all proteomics laboratories should use standard samples to calibrate their proteomics systems. Here at Fixing Proteomics, we believe that running standard samples is key for any laboratory involved in proteomics, in fact labs should probably run multiple standard samples, it's the first step in our 4-steps to Fixing Proteomics.
There are many commercially available standard samples, as well as in-house standards. If you would like to let other proteomics researchers know about your standard sample, please contact us and we can add it to this page.
Standard Samples available:
The Universal Proteomics Standard for Protein Mass Spectrometry was developed by Sigma Aldrich as a result of work by the ABRF Proteomics Standards Research Group (sPRG). more »
The HUPO Gold MS Protein Standard, developed by Invitrogen, is a defined mixture of known human proteins designed to allow scientists to benchmark the quality of their experimental data and compare results from experiment to experiment.
A standard protein sample derived from HeLa cells, based on the protocol proven to generate reproducible results within and across-labs. This is due for commercial release in 2008. More details to follow...
