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Article: Proteomics: characterizing the cogs in the machinery of life.(Focus)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- November 15, 2003
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Now that human genome sequence is complete, the quest to extract beneficial knowledge from it is on. One of the most promising, active areas of exploration lies in the human proteome--the global expression of proteins, those marvelouus strings of amino acids responsible for all human biologic processes. Proteins are life, and the recently developed ability to study them on a large scale, quantitatively and qualitatively, is known as proteomics.
The proteome may never be completely solved in the same way the genome was. The genome is relatively static, and presented a finite end point. The proteome is dynamic, changing constantly with time and conditions, with ...