FAQ

How to cite the jPOST resources?
Citing the jPOST repository (jPOSTrepo):

jPOSTrepo: an international standard data repository for proteomes.
Okuda S, Watanabe Y, Moriya Y, Kawano S, Yamamoto T, Matsumoto M, Takami T, Kobayashi D, Araki N, Yoshizawa AC, Tabata T, Sugiyama N, Goto S, Ishihama Y. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017; 45(D1):D1107-D1111. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1080.

Citing the jPOST database (jPOSTdb):
The jPOST environment: an integrated proteomics data repository and database.
Moriya Y, Kawano S, Okuda S, Watanabe Y, Matsumoto M, Takami T, Kobayashi D, Yamanouchi Y, Araki N, Yoshizawa AC, Tabata T, Iwasaki M, Sugiyama N, Tanaka S, Goto S, Ishihama Y.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2019; 47(D1):D1218-D1224. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky899.

Citing ProteomeXchange:
Deutsch EW, Csordas A, Sun Z, Jarnuczak A, Perez-Riverol Y, Ternent T, Campbell D, Bernal-Llinares M, Okuda S, Kawano S, Moritz RL,1 Carver JJ., Wang M, Ishihama Y, Bandeira N, Hermjakob H and Vizcaíno JA.
The ProteomeXchange consortium in 2017: supporting the cultural change in proteomics public data deposition.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2017; 45(Database issue): D1100–D1106. PubMed ID: 27924013.

What is the license for reuse of jPOST data and software?
jPOST uses the CC0 license

[https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/] for both the jPOSTrepo and jPOSTdb data (including Covid-19 data). The software licensed provided by the re-analysis workflow and gadgets are xxx licenses.

A reviewer of a journal to which I submitted a paper asked me to open mass spectrometry data. Does jPOST accept the data?
Yes.

As an official member of the ProteomeXchange Consortium, jPOSTrepo accepts mass spectrometry data and issues IDs that can be published in journals.