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Nature 420, 591 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420591b

Through the protein labyrinth

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Proteomics is delivering results that pose new problems in data management and compatibility.

Spots, bands and peaks. Readers could be forgiven for being hard pressed to make a connection but, to the up-and-coming biologist, resolving spots and bands on polyacrylamide gels and reading peaks from a mass spectrophotometer lie at the heart of high-throughput biology.