Comment on a PREreview of "Seeking community input for: mzPeak - a modern, scalable, and interoperable mass spectrometry data format for the future"

This Zenodo record is a permanently preserved version of a comment on a PREreview. You can view the complete PREreview and comments at https://prereview.org/reviews/14934154. Hi Chris, Thanks for the review. I am also a big fan of mzMLb, and one of the technical implementations that we are looking at is just trying to extend that format to encompass the further metadata that we want to collect, specifically with providing the instrument vendors an explicit section to store vendor specific data that doesn't nicely correspond to our controlled vocabulary. I'd also prefer to find a solution that works in a single file (or at the very least transparently packs multiple files into an archive on close). Your comments on the user error mirror what I have seen when trying to grab raw data out of Pride depositions, more files means more chances for user errors. We will keep that in mind in trying to balance speed versus complexity. Competing interests I am an author of this preprint.