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Accelerating the search for the missing proteins in the human proteome

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Baker, Mark S., Ahn, Seong Beom, Mohamedali, Abidali, Islam, Mohammad T., Cantor, David, Verhaert, Peter D., Fanayan, Susan, Sharma, Samridhi +3 more·2017·Nature Communications

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The Human Proteome Project (HPP) aims to discover high-stringency data for all proteins encoded by the human genome. Currently, ∼18% of the proteins in the human proteome (the missing proteins) do not have high-stringency evidence (for example, mass spectrometry) confirming their existence, while much additional information is available about many of these missing proteins. Here, we present MissingProteinPedia as a community resource to accelerate the discovery and understanding of these missing proteins. The Human Proteome Project aims to catalogue the ∼20,000 proteins encoded by the human genome. In this review, Bakeret al. focus on the missing proteins, proteins that lack high stringency proteomic evidence, and launch MissingProteinPedia, a database aimed at accelerating the search for missing proteins.

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Baker, M. S., Ahn, S. B., Mohamedali, A., Islam, M. T., Cantor, D., Verhaert, P. D., Fanayan, S., Sharma, S., Nice, E. C., Connor, M., & Ranganathan, S.
Affiliations
  • Macquarie University (AU)
  • University of Antwerp (BE)
  • Monash University (AU)
Corresponding author
Baker, Mark S.
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2017-01-24
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
14271-14271
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2580329791
Cited by
100
References
59
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2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 14
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2.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Monash University Research Portal (Monash University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Australian Government
  • Macquarie University
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
missing proteins, human proteome, Human Proteome Project, proteomics database, protein discovery, human genome
MeSH terms
Proteogenomics, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Humans, Genome, Human, Proteome, Databases, Protein, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled

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