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Baker MS, Ahn SB, Mohamedali A, Islam MT, Cantor D, Verhaert PD, Fanayan S, Sharma S, Nice EC, Connor M, Ranganathan S. Accelerating the search for the missing proteins in the human proteome. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14271. [PMID: 28117396 PMCID: PMC5286205 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
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, Baker et 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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Affiliation(s)
- Mark S. Baker
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
| | - Abidali Mohamedali
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
| | - David Cantor
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
| | - Samridhi Sharma
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
| | - Edouard C. Nice
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
| | - Mark Connor
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
| | - Shoba Ranganathan
- Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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