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Nature 417, 107 (9 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417107a

NIH ponders issues of scale in protein push

Erika Check

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces a tough balancing act between funding large institutes and supporting individual laboratories in the still-emerging discipline of proteomics, said scientists at a workshop on the topic.Twenty-four senior researchers were invited to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, late last month to tell its managers how best to invest in proteomics, which seeks to establish the structure and function of all human proteins.