TY - JOUR AU - Smith, Rob AU - Taylor, Ryan M. AU - Prince, John T. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/04/23 TI - Current controlled vocabularies are insufficient to uniquely map molecular entities to mass spectrometry signal JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - S2 VL - 16 IS - 7 AB - The comparison of analyte mass spectrometry precursor (MS1) signal is central to many proteomic (and other -omic) workflows. Standard vocabularies for mass spectrometry exist and provide good coverage for most experimental applications yet are insufficient for concise and unambiguous description of data concepts spanning the range of signal provenance from a molecular perspective (e.g. from charged peptides down to fine isotopes). Without a standard unambiguous nomenclature, literature searches, algorithm reproducibility and algorithm evaluation for MS-omics data processing are nearly impossible. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-16-S7-S2 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-16-S7-S2 ID - Smith2015 ER -