QCloud: a cloud-based quality control system for mass spectrometry-based proteomics laboratories

The increasing number of biomedical and translational applications in mass spectrometry-based proteomics poses new analytical challenges and raises the need for automated quality control systems. Despite previous efforts to set standard file formats, data processing workflows and key evaluation para...

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Autores: Chiva, Cristina, Olivella, Roger, Borràs, Eva, Espadas, Guadalupe, Pastor, Olga, Solé, Amanda, Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/43083
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189209
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quality control
Proteomic databases
User interfaces
Data processing
Proteomics
Mass spectrometers
Software tools
Data acquisition
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Sumario:The increasing number of biomedical and translational applications in mass spectrometry-based proteomics poses new analytical challenges and raises the need for automated quality control systems. Despite previous efforts to set standard file formats, data processing workflows and key evaluation parameters for quality control, automated quality control systems are not yet widespread among proteomics laboratories, which limits the acquisition of high-quality results, inter-laboratory comparisons and the assessment of variability of instrumental platforms. Here we present QCloud, a cloud-based system to support proteomics laboratories in daily quality assessment using a user-friendly interface, easy setup, automated data processing and archiving, and unbiased instrument evaluation. QCloud supports the most common targeted and untargeted proteomics workflows, it accepts data formats from different vendors and it enables the annotation of acquired data and reporting incidences. A complete version of the QCloud system has successfully been developed and it is now open to the proteomics community (http://qcloud.crg.eu). QCloud system is an open source project, publicly available under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.