title: Is it functional? Report on the first BSPR/EBI meeting on functional proteomics.
abstract: This report describes the first scientific meeting of the British Society for Proteome Research (BSPR), which was organised jointly with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and held in July 2004. The focus of the conference was functional proteomics with an emphasis on possible clinical application. The main subjects described here are: the need to simplify samples, the use of biological fluids versus tissue, consideration of biological and experimental variation and the creation of databases to achieve meaningful functional analysis.
authors.affiliation: School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, UK. k.l.pixton@rdg.ac.uk
authors.forename: Katherine L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Pixton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D019992:Databases as Topic; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D006031:Glycosylation; D006801:Humans; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers