A comparison of the HUPO Brain Proteome Project pilot with other proteomics studies.
The pilot phase of the Brain Proteome Project (BPP), the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) initiative that focuses on studies of the brain of both humans and mice, has now been completed. Participating laboratories studied the proteomes of two human samples derived from biopsy and autopsy as well as three mouse samples from various developmental stages. With the combined and centrally reprocessed data now available, a comparison in terms of protein identifications and project organization is made between the HUPO BPP pilot and three other proteomics studies: the HUPO Plasma Proteome Project (PPP) pilot, a proteome of human blood platelets and a recently published comprehensive mouse proteome. Finally, as any comparison between large-scale proteomics datasets is decidedly non-trivial, we also evaluate and discuss several ways to go about comparing such different result sets.
Martens
Lennart
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Department of Biochemistry and Medical Protein Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. lennart.martens@UGent.be
Müller
Michael
M
Stephan
Christian
C
Hamacher
Michael
M
Reidegeld
Kai A
KA
Meyer
Helmut E
HE
Blüggel
Martin
M
Vandekerckhove
Joël
J
Gevaert
Kris
K
Apweiler
Rolf
R
D000818:Animals; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D010865:Pilot Projects