@ARTICLE{Gloriam2010,
  author = {David E Gloriam and Sandra Orchard and Daniela Bertinetti and Erik
	Björling and Erik Bongcam-Rudloff and Carl A K Borrebaeck and Julie
	Bourbeillon and Andrew R M Bradbury and Antoine de Daruvar and Stefan
	Dübel and Ronald Frank and Toby J Gibson and Larry Gold and Niall
	Haslam and Friedrich W Herberg and Tara Hiltke and Jörg D Hoheisel
	and Samuel Kerrien and Manfred Koegl and Zoltán Konthur and Bernhard
	Korn and Ulf Landegren and Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi and Sandrine Palcy
	and Henry Rodriguez and Sonja Schweinsberg and Volker Sievert and
	Oda Stoevesandt and Michael J Taussig and Marius Ueffing and Mathias
	Uhlén and Silvère van der Maarel and Christer Wingren and Peter Woollard
	and David J Sherman and Henning Hermjakob},
  title = {A community standard format for the representation of protein affinity
	reagents.},
  journal = {Mol Cell Proteomics},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {1--10},
  number = {1},
  month = {Jan},
  abstract = {Protein affinity reagents (PARs), most commonly antibodies, are essential
	reagents for protein characterization in basic research, biotechnology,
	and diagnostics as well as the fastest growing class of therapeutics.
	Large numbers of PARs are available commercially; however, their
	quality is often uncertain. In addition, currently available PARs
	cover only a fraction of the human proteome, and their cost is prohibitive
	for proteome scale applications. This situation has triggered several
	initiatives involving large scale generation and validation of antibodies,
	for example the Swedish Human Protein Atlas and the German Antibody
	Factory. Antibodies targeting specific subproteomes are being pursued
	by members of Human Proteome Organisation (plasma and liver proteome
	projects) and the United States National Cancer Institute (cancer-associated
	antigens). ProteomeBinders, a European consortium, aims to set up
	a resource of consistently quality-controlled protein-binding reagents
	for the whole human proteome. An ultimate PAR database resource would
	allow consumers to visit one on-line warehouse and find all available
	affinity reagents from different providers together with documentation
	that facilitates easy comparison of their cost and quality. However,
	in contrast to, for example, nucleotide databases among which data
	are synchronized between the major data providers, current PAR producers,
	quality control centers, and commercial companies all use incompatible
	formats, hindering data exchange. Here we propose Proteomics Standards
	Initiative (PSI)-PAR as a global community standard format for the
	representation and exchange of protein affinity reagent data. The
	PSI-PAR format is maintained by the Human Proteome Organisation PSI
	and was developed within the context of ProteomeBinders by building
	on a mature proteomics standard format, PSI-molecular interaction,
	which is a widely accepted and established community standard for
	molecular interaction data. Further information and documentation
	are available on the PSI-PAR web site.},
  doi = {10.1074/mcp.M900185-MCP200},
  institution = {European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
	Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom. par@psidev.info},
  language = {eng},
  medline-pst = {ppublish},
  pii = {M900185-MCP200},
  pmid = {19674966},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M900185-MCP200}
}