The ESF programme on Integrated Approaches for Functional Genomics workshop on ‘Proteomics: Focus on protein interactions’

This inaugural meeting of the European Science Foundation’s programme, ‘Integrated Approaches for Functional Genomics’, was opened by Gianni Cesareni (University of Rome Tor Vergata), one of the organisers. He compared proteomics to a jigsaw, but more difficult because it involves four dimensions and some of the pieces are still missing. Ideally, we would like to know the affinity of each protein for each of its binding partners. This will require much more work and there are several complementary approaches.