First It Was the Genome, Now the Proteome: Another Information-Rich Library

"More complex than previously thought" -- how often have we heard that phrase in news stories about the human genome? We heard it again when the ENCODE project found unexpected complexity in the human transcriptome (the library of DNA that is transcribed). Now, the phrase is being used regarding the human proteome, the set of all human proteins encoded by transcribed DNA. From Johns Hopkins University:

In a summary of the effort, to be published May 29 in the journal Nature, the team also re...