This week
sees the publication of a series of papers detailing the work of the Alliance
for Cellular Signaling (AfCS) a consortium tackling global questions about
cell-signalling networks. A collaboration between the AfCS and Nature will
enable key facts about signalling proteins to be captured in a database, the Molecule
Pages, freely accessible from the AfCSNature Signaling
Gateway website.
Alliance for cellular signaling: Into unknown territory ALISON ABBOTT The Alliance for Cellular Signaling is exploring
new frontiers, both in fundamental scientific terms and in the way in which research
in cell biology is conducted. Alison Abbott reports. Nature420,
600601 (2002); doi:10.1038/420600a | Full
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Overview of the Alliance for Cellular Signaling B LYMPHOCYTE SYSTEM COMMITTEE, CARDIAC MYOCYTE SYSTEM COMMITTEE,
EXTERNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BIOINFORMATICS AND DATA COORDINATION LABORATORY,
CELL PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS LABORATORY, LABORATORY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNALING
ASSAYS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY, PROTEIN CHEMISTRY LABORATORY, MICROSCOPY
LABORATORY, ANTIBODY LABORATORY, LIPIDOMICS LABORATORY, MEMBERSHIP AND EDITORIAL
COMMITTEE & BRIDGING PROJECT INVESTIGATORS Nature420, 703706
(2002); doi:10.1038/nature01304 | Summary
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Unravelling the signal-transduction network in B lymphocytes GILBERTO R. SAMBRANO, GRISCHA CHANDY, SANGDUN CHOI, DIANNE
DECAMP, ROBERT HSUEH, KENG-MEAN LIN, DENNIS MOCK, NANCY O'ROURKE, TAMARA ROACH,
HONGJUN SHU, BOB SINKOVITS, MARY VERGHESE & HENRY BOURNE Nature420, 708710 (2002); doi:10.1038/nature01305 | Summary
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Navigating the signalling network in mouse cardiac myocytes GILBERTO R. SAMBRANO, IAIN FRASER, HEPING HAN, YAN NI, TIM
O'CONNELL, ZHEN YAN & JAMES T. STULL Nature420, 712714
(2002); doi:10.1038/nature01306 | Summary
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The Molecule Pages database JOSHUA
LI, YUHONG NING, WARREN HEDLEY, BRIAN SAUNDERS, YONGSHENG CHEN, NICOLE TINDILL,
TIMO HANNAY & SHANKAR SUBRAMANIAM Nature420, 716717
(2002); doi:10.1038/nature01307 | Summary
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