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Protein profiling comes of age

Ian M Tomlinson and Lucy J Holt

Author Affiliations

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, UK

Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1004-reviews1004.3 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-2-reviews1004

Published: 31 January 2001

Abstract

Ever since DNA microarrays were first applied to the quantitation of RNA levels, there has been considerable interest in generating a protein homolog that can be used to assay cellular protein expression. A recent paper describes the first microarray that can be used for such protein profiling.