'First drafts' of human protein catalogue published (BBC)
By Jonathan Webb
Science reporter, BBC News
The first two attempts at a database of every single human protein - the "proteome" - have been made public.
This builds on our knowledge of the genome by showing which genes actually produce proteins in which tissues.
One team in Germany and one spanning the US and India have published their proteome maps in the journal Nature, and on searchable, public websites.
Some of the 17-to-18,000 reported proteins arise from stretches of DNA previously thought to be "non-coding".
Along the vast length of DNA packed inside each of our cells, our genes are the sections which contain the instructions, or code, for making proteins.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27592655
The databases:
https://www.proteomicsdb.org/ (requires newer browser)
http://humanproteomemap.org.
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