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Article: CONFIRMANT UNVEILS PROTEIN ATLAS DATABASE FOR DRUG DISCOVERY.(Brief Article)
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- February 26, 2002
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Confirmant Ltd. developed what it says is the first comprehensive database of human proteins, the Protein Atlas of the Human Genome, for use by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in drug discovery efforts.
"We're devising the protein sequence information and mapping that back to the genome," said Jonathan Sheldon, chief technology officer for Confirmant, based in Abingdon, UK.
Confirmant, a joint venture of Oxford GlycoSciences plc and Marconi plc, is identifying protein sequence tags, or PSTs, that can be mapped back to the human genome to unambiguously define gene structure. The venture integrates Marconi's broadband data transmission ...