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Nature 439, 1017-1021 (23 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/4391017a; Published online 22 February 2006

Open Innovation Challenges

Protein purification: Fast forward

Laura Bonetta1

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Proteomics raises new challenges in protein purification. Technologies well adapted to isolate individual proteins get a makeover to tackle large numbers of samples. Laura Bonetta investigates.

Proteomics aims to identify the cellular functions of all proteins encoded by the genome of an organism. Protein structure determination, proteome-wide functional screens, and the identification of protein interactions are just a few of the proteomics applications requiring thousands of purified proteins as a starting point.

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