Agilent's collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology for the mapping of the human proteome by mass spectrometry is entering its second phase.
On 20 September, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) announced completion of the first phase of the two-year project, including generating gold-standard reference mass spectra for each of 20,300 genes currently annotated as protein-encoding in the human genome.
The project is expected to fuel research gains in biomarker discovery and validation, the search for protein-based diagnostic tests, personalised medicine and human health monitoring.
The original collaboration, announced in October 2009, includes using Agilent triple quadrupole and quadrupole time-of-flight liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) systems; nanoflow HPLC-Chip/MS systems; and protein analysis software to create a map of all human proteins.
