Proteomics Research

The term ‘proteomics’ is derived from the word ‘proteome’ coined in July 1995 by VC Wasinger to include total protein complement encoded in a genome. Proteomics is thus the large-scale study of proteins. We known that in all living organisms, most genes (except those which are used for the synthesis of ribosomal and transfer RNAs or are used as regulatory binding sites) are expressed as proteins and may or may not be directly responsible for a phenotypic trait.

Therefore, a study the functions of all genes of an organism. Such an approach has become possible in recent years due to rapid developments of techniques which allow study of thousands and millions of proteins in parallel. This approach has also made the approach of reverse genetics truly feasible, because from a study of proteins, one can deduce the function of the corresponding gene and then the trait which this gene controls.