Proteomics
Professor Seth Grant provides a definition of proteomics - the study of the properties of a large numbers of proteins.
Proteomics can be defined as the study or the approach to studying large numbers of proteins or the properties of many proteins. Previously, protein biochemistry focused usually on just one protein and its properties, but new methodologies such as mass spectrometry can be used to study hundreds of thousands of proteins all in one shot.
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