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Nature Biotechnology 26, 164–167 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt0208-164

Human Proteinpedia enables sharing of human protein data

Suresh Mathivanan , Mukhtar Ahmed , Natalie G Ahn , Hainard Alexandre , Ramars Amanchy , Philip C Andrews , Joel S Bader , Brian M Balgley , Marcus Bantscheff , Keiryn L Bennett , Erik Bj|[ouml]|rling , Blagoy Blagoev , Ron Bose , Samir K Brahmachari , Alma S Burlingame , Xos|[eacute]| R Bustelo , Gerard Cagney , Greg T Cantin , Helene L Cardasis , Julio E Celis , Raghothama Chaerkady , Feixia Chu , Philip A Cole , Catherine E Costello , Robert J Cotter , David Crockett , James P DeLany , Angelo M De Marzo , Leroi V DeSouza , Eric W Deutsch , Eric Dransfield , Gerard Drewes , Arnaud Droit , Michael J Dunn , Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson , Rob M Ewing , Jennifer Van Eyk , Vitor Faca , Jayson Falkner , Xiangming Fang , Catherine Fenselau , Daniel Figeys , Pierre Gagn|[eacute]| , Cecilia Gelfi , Kris Gevaert , Jeffrey M Gimble , Florian Gnad , Renu Goel , Pavel Gromov , Samir M Hanash , William S Hancock , HC Harsha , Gerald Hart , Faith Hays , Fuchu He , Prashantha Hebbar , Kenny Helsens , Heiko Hermeking , Winston Hide , Karin Hjern|[oslash]| , Denis F Hochstrasser , Oliver Hofmann , David M Horn , Ralph H Hruban , Nieves Ibarrola , Peter James , Ole N Jensen , Pia H|[oslash]|nnerup Jensen , Peter Jung , Kumaran Kandasamy , Indu Kheterpal , Reiko F Kikuno , Ulrike Korf , Roman K|[ouml]|rner , Bernhard Kuster , Min-Seok Kwon , Hyoung-Joo Lee , Young-Jin Lee , Michael Lefevre , Minna Lehvaslaiho , Pierre Lescuyer , Fredrik Levander , Megan S Lim , Christian L|[ouml]|bke , Joseph A Loo , Matthias Mann , Lennart Martens , Juan Martinez-Heredia , Mark McComb , James McRedmond , Alexander Mehrle , Rajasree Menon , Christine A Miller , Harald Mischak , S Sujatha Mohan , Riaz Mohmood , Henrik Molina , Michael F Moran , James D Morgan , Robert Moritz , Martine Morzel , David C Muddiman , Anuradha Nalli , J Daniel Navarro , Thomas A Neubert , Osamu Ohara , Rafael Oliva , Gilbert S Omenn , Masaaki Oyama , Young-Ki Paik , Kyla Pennington , Rainer Pepperkok , Balamurugan Periaswamy , Emanuel F Petricoin , Guy G Poirier , T S Keshava Prasad , Samuel O Purvine , B Abdul Rahiman , Prasanna Ramachandran , Y L Ramachandra , Robert H Rice , Jens Rick , Ragna H Ronnholm , Johanna Salonen , Jean-Charles Sanchez , Thierry Sayd , Beerelli Seshi , Kripa Shankari , Shi Jun Sheng , Vivekananda Shetty , K Shivakumar , Richard J Simpson , Ravi Sirdeshmukh , K W Michael Siu , Jeffrey C Smith , Richard D Smith , David J States , Sumio Sugano , Matthew Sullivan , Giulio Superti-Furga , Maarit Takatalo , Visith Thongboonkerd , Jonathan C Trinidad , Mathias Uhlen , Jo|[euml]|l Vandekerckhove , Julian Vasilescu , Timothy D Veenstra , Jos|[eacute]|-Manuel Vidal-Taboada , Mauno Vihinen , Robin Wait , Xiaoyue Wang , Stefan Wiemann , Billy Wu , Tao Xu , John R Yates , Jun Zhong , Ming Zhou , Yunping Zhu , Petra Zurbig & Akhilesh Pandey

To the editor: Proteomic technologies, such as yeast two-hybrid, mass spectrometry (MS), protein/peptide arrays and fluorescence microscopy, yield multi-dimensional data sets, which are often quite large and either not published or published as supplementary information that is not easily searchable. Without a system in place for standardizing and sharing data, it is not fruitful for the biomedical community to contribute these types of data to centralized repositories.