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Hi Johnny Cool,
Dr. Bonneau has said that he expects most researchers will start by using Cytoscape ( http://www.cytoscape.org/ ) on the new Human Proteome database when it goes online. Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data. So he expects that the initial research will be done by systems biologists mapping out networks of interacting proteins. This is a very reductionist approach to understanding basic cell biology. Just where it will lead is very hard for me to predict. And maybe some scientists will use the database in ways that will surprise Dr. Bonneau. If you read Robert Heinlein's science fiction books when you were growing up, this is a lot like the basic research conducted by the Long Range Foundation in 'Time For The Stars' and 'Farmer In The Sky'. Could it help some cancer researchers? Quite possibly, but it is not directly targeted at cancer. As for the new projects, I do not expect to hear anything definite until sometime in the last quarter of the year. mycrofth |
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Johnny Cool
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mycrofth, thank you for the reply. I'll check out that url as well.
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