The Age of Data-Driven Proteomics: How Machine Learning Enables Novel Workflows Robbin Bouwmeester 1,2 * , Ralf Gabriels 1,2 * , Tim Van Den Bossche 1,2 , Lennart Martens 1,2 § , and Sven Degroeve 1,2 1 VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Belgium 2 Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium * Authors contributed equally § To whom correspondence should be addressed Tel: +32 9 264 93 58 Email: lennart.martens@vib-ugent.be Address: A. Baertsoenkaai 3, 9000 Ghent, Belgium ORCID IDs: Robbin Bouwmeester: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6807-7029 Ralf Gabriels: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1679-1711 Tim Van Den Bossche: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5916-2587 Lennart Martens: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4277-658X Sven Degroeve: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-3370