BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND PROTEOMICS

Abstract

The term "proteomics" was created in 1997, by analogy of genomics, genome studies. "Proteom" refers to a mixture of proteins and genome and was created by Marcom Wilkins in 1994. Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, as they are the main components of the physiological metabolic pathways of cells. After genomics and transcriptomics, proteomics is the “next step” in the study of biological systems. It is more complicated than genomics because an organism's genome is approximated by the constant, whereas the proteome differs from cell to cell and from time to time. Distinct genes are expressed in different cell types, which means that even the basic set of proteins that are produced in a cell needs to be identified.

Keywords

• proteomics
• proteins
• genes