- Proteomics
- The study of the proteome, all of the proteins produced by a given species. (The proteome is to protein as the genome is to DNA.) The term "proteome" was first coined from the PROTEin complement of the genOME in the mid-1990s by Marc Wilkins, a graduate student at Macquarie University in Australia. Wilkins defines proteomics as "the study of proteins, how they're modified, when and where they're expressed, how they're involved in metabolic pathways and how they interact with one another."
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pro·te·o·mics .prōt-ē-'ō-miks n pl but sing in constr a branch of biotechnology concerned with applying the techniques of molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics to analyzing the structure, function, and interactions of the proteins produced by the genes of a particular cell, tissue, or organism, with organizing the information in databases, and with applications of the data (as in medicine or biology) compare GENOMICSpro·te·o·mic -mik adj* * *
pro·te·o·mics (pro″te-oґmiks) the qualitative and quantitative study of the proteome under various conditions, including protein expression, modification, localization, and function, and protein–protein interactions, as a means of understanding biological processes.
Medical dictionary. 2011.