There are a plethora of QC scripts and tools described in the literature as "written in-house", without much further detail. For the sake of the mass spectrometry proteomics core, this discussion will focus on software and tools that are reasonably FAIR and currently (December 15, 2023) usable with minimal setup. This includes most of the tools described in the bio.tools registry. Out of a total of 375 "quality control" software tools, 32 belong to the "Proteomics" domain (