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| | PROTEOMICS: Proteomics in Genomeland -- Fields 291 (5507): 1221 -- Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Proteomics includes not only the identification and quantification of proteins, but also the determination of their localization, modifications, interactions, activities, and, ultimately, their function. |
 | | Proteomics, like its precursor genomics, thus represents the emergence of a new way of doing research that is not dependent on the testing of specific models of cellular behavior. |
 | | Given the current genomic and proteomic commotion, we should keep in mind that a protein found to be "in the spliceosome complex," "interacting with actin," "co-evolving with a prion protein," or "up-regulated in leukemia" has not been functionally characterized in the traditional sense to which biologists are accustomed. |
| www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/291/5507/1221 (3004 words) |
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