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Proteomic

 Proteomics refers to the study of proteomes, but is additionally used to describe the techniques used to determine the whole set of proteins of an organism or system, like protein purification and mass spectrometry. After genomics and transcriptomics, proteomics is the next step within the study of biological systems. it's more complicated than genomics because an organism's genome is more or less constant, whereas proteomes differ from cell to cell and from time to time. The quantitative study of protein expression between samples that differ by certain variable is understood as expression proteomics. this sort of proteomics can help identify the most proteins found during a particular sample and proteins differentially expressed in related samples, e.g. when comparing diseased and healthy tissue. In proteomics, there are multiple methods to review proteins. Generally, proteins could also be detected by using either antibodies (immunoassays) or mass spectrometry. If a complex biological sample is analyzed, either a really specific antibody needs to be utilized in quantitative dot blot analysis (QDB), or biochemical separation then must be used before the detection step, as there are too many analytes within the sample to perform accurate detection and quantification. Functional proteomics represents a wide-ranging term for several specific, directed proteomics methodologies. The characterization of protein-protein interactions are used to determine protein functions and to demonstrate how proteins assemble in larger complexes. In some cases, specific subproteomes are isolated by affinity chromatography for additional analysis.  

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