jPOSTrepo: an international standard data repository for proteomes

TLDR

Mass spectrometry‑based proteomics has rapidly expanded, generating many datasets worldwide, underscoring the need for high‑quality public repositories to share and reuse these data. jPOSTrepo offers high‑speed uploads, flexible file management, and user‑friendly interfaces, and it is a member of the ProteomeXchange consortium, linking it with major repositories such as PRIDE and PASSEL. Since its launch in July 2016, jPOSTrepo has become a publicly accessible repository that, as part of ProteomeXchange, aggregates diverse proteomics datasets and is poised to serve as a major resource, particularly for Asia/Oceania.

Abstract

Major advancements have recently been made in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, yielding an increasing number of datasets from various proteomics projects worldwide. In order to facilitate the sharing and reuse of promising datasets, it is important to construct appropriate, high-quality public data repositories. jPOSTrepo (https://repository.jpostdb.org/) has successfully implemented several unique features, including high-speed file uploading, flexible file management and easy-to-use interfaces. This repository has been launched as a public repository containing various proteomic datasets and is available for researchers worldwide. In addition, our repository has joined the ProteomeXchange consortium, which includes the most popular public repositories such as PRIDE in Europe for MS/MS datasets and PASSEL for SRM datasets in the USA. Later MassIVE was introduced in the USA and accepted into the ProteomeXchange, as was our repository in July 2016, providing important datasets from Asia/Oceania. Accordingly, this repository thus contributes to a global alliance to share and store all datasets from a wide variety of proteomics experiments. Thus, the repository is expected to become a major repository, particularly for data collected in the Asia/Oceania region.