The Proteomics Standards Initiative of the Human Proteome Organization held their 2023 annual meeting in fair Leiden.

The Journal of Proteome Research just released its third biennial Special Issue on Software Tools and Resources, showcasing novel and significantly updated tools for computational proteomics.

Authorship on papers is a perennially thorny issue that has pricked or prickled many an academic ego. In a rapidly expanding universe of joint first authors, multiple corresponding authors and shared senior authors, there is a constant need to define new author types to fully capture the complexity and describe the diversity of academic authorships. In a consolidated effort we here introduce and define the following alternative author types, altauthors, analogous to altmetrics.

In a recently published JPR paper, we describe how sets of tandem mass spectra can be compared to each other, without any prior knowledge about genomes, protein sequences or spectra. So what, you ask?

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, MDPI, is an Open-Access scientific publisher that have grown exponentially in recent years. Much of this growth comes in the form of Special Issues which, as it turns out, are not all that special.

Guest post by Ben Neely. In a recent lecture by Elisabeth Bik, the concept of "tortured phrases" came up. What are they, and can I make them?