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And now for the proteome. . .

2001; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 409; Issue: 6822 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/35057460

1476-4687

Alison Abbott,

Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications

of Rockville, Maryland, and the publicly funded international Human Genome Project (HGP) has reignited the debate over the relative merits of the two teams' different strategies.The two groups published their work simultaneously, as promised last summer, and held a cordial joint press conference in Washington on Monday to advertise the fact.At five more press conferences around the world, participants in the public project celebrated their achievement, which is published in Nature (see pages 860-921).But in the run-up to these meetings, leading members of both teams had been working hard in an attempt to ensure that history -or at least the media -would judge them to have made the more important contribution.Celera, which embarked on its sequencing effort only three years ago, needs to convince customers who will pay for access to its database that what they are getting is superior to the freely available public data.Members of the HGP, having fought off what they regard as an effort by Celera to undermine their project, are now arguing that Celera's assembly, published in Science (291, 1304-1351; 2001), could not have been completed without drawing heavily on their own work.