Report on the Barbados Workshop

The HUPO Workshop on “Test Samples for Quantitative Proteomics” was held in Barbados January 9–16, 2009 at the McGill Bellairs Research Institute co-chaired by Drs. Jan van Oostrum (Chair, HUPO Industrial Advisory Board) and John Bergeron (McGill University). The Workshop was organized by Ms. Sylvie Ouellette (Administrative Coordinator, HUPO). The Workshop built on the foundation of a HUPO test samples effort in press in Nature Methods (Ref. 1). This paper demonstrated how 27 international labs selected by a HUPO Test Samples Committee were able to ensure 100% success by all participating labs for the characterization of 20 proteins at a 5 picomole abundance for each protein.