The HUPO Brain Proteome Project--no need to hurry?
The HUPO Brain Proteome Project (HUPO BPP) is dedicated to the analysis of the brain proteome and has initiated two pilot studies in order to elaborate a standardised system for data collection and reprocessing. Samples of mouse brains (different developmental stages) and human brain tissue (biopsy and post-mortem samples) were shipped to different laboratories in Europe, Asia and the US that were invited to identify as many proteins as possible using their own approaches. In addition, a centralised data reprocessing strategy has been elaborated in an iterative way to generate highly reliable lists of identified proteins. This consortium could be a good example for a standardized proteomics workflow.
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Medical Proteom-Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. michael.hamacher@rub.de
Marcus
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van Hall
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Meyer
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Stephan
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D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D040901:Proteomics / Q000458:organization & administration*