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Proteome and proteomics: New technologies, new concepts, and new words
Author(s) -
Anderson N. Leigh,
Anderson Norman G.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/elps.1150191103
Subject(s) - proteomics , proteome , computational biology , genomics , mechanism (biology) , protein expression , computer science , data science , biology , bioinformatics , gene , genome , genetics , philosophy , epistemology
The goal of proteomics is a comprehensive, quantitative description of protein expression and its changes under the influence of biological perturbations such as disease or drug treatment. Quantitative analysis of protein expression data obtained by high‐throughput methods has led us to define the concept of “regulatory homology” and use it to begin to elucidate the basic structure of gene expression control in vivo . Such investigations lay the groundwork for construction of comprehensive databases of mechanisms (cataloguing possible biological outcomes), the next logical step after the soon to be completed cataloguing of genes and gene products. Mechanism databases provide a roadmap towards effective therapeutic intervention that is more direct than that offered by conventional genomics approaches.