PROTEOMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proteomics mean? 

• PROTEOMICS (noun)
  The noun PROTEOMICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome

  Familiarity information: PROTEOMICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTEOMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("proteomics" is a kind of...):

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

 Context examples 

A multi-organism, publicly accessible compendium of peptides identified in a large set of tandem mass spectrometry proteomics experiments.

(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)

A suite of database and analysis tools for managing proteomics data; built on LabKey, the open source platform for science developed in partnership with the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center.

(Computational Proteomics Analysis System, NCI Thesaurus)

One difference between genome sequencing and so-called ‘proteomics’ – studying an individual’s proteins in depth – is that whereas the genome is fixed, the proteome changes over time.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

BioCarta aims to be the leader in the development and commercialization of new technology for functional proteomics by creating an international organization geared towards identifying, acquiring, and commercializing novel products.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

The Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with design and programming of relational databases for clinical, population and other large-scale studies, development and supervision of a sophisticated data communication and reporting systems, software development for analyzing and interpreting data generated from clinical trials, population studies, microarray and proteomics technologies and other types of translational research.

(Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)