Mass spectrometry

Protein Biochips – On the threshold of success By Dr Steven Bodovitz and Felicia Gentile With sales of protein biochips set to top $700 million in 2006, we present a current overview of this fast moving technology and the applications for the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. On the surface (pun intended), it appears that […]

Proteomatics – New information resources for proteomics By Dr David J Parry-Smith and Dr David S Bailey Proteomics is the science of understanding protein architectures at a supramolecular level, whereas the realm of understanding the organisation of biological information in its totality belongs to bioinformatics. Somewhat more prosaically, industrial bioinformatics is about data handling and […]

Proteomics In Drug Target Discovery – High-throughput meets high-efficiency By Dr Terence E. Ryan and Dr Scott D. Patterson Biochemistry is enjoying a renaissance under the guise of ‘proteomics’ due to the availability of sequenced genomes, advances in mass spectrometry and associated data analysis. Its application to drug discovery and development has obvious benefits to […]

Implementation or algorithm? The value of Bioinformatics By Dr Christopher Hogue Recently the value of bioinformatics has been questioned. The value can be proven but are there enough qualified and professionally trained people who know how to build good bioinformatics tools? At the BIO convention in New York recently, I was aghast to watch as […]

High-throughput Crystallisation By Dr Sara Moran and Dr Lance Stewart With structure-based drug design on the increase can the development of high-throughput crystallisation fulfil its promise to revolutionise the drug discovery process? In an era when the development of drugs is hindered by the exorbitant costs of discovery and clinical trials, any method that can […]

By Dr Ashok R. Dongre and Dr Stanley A. Hefta The genomic sequencing efforts spawned the field of proteomics by providing the basic blueprint for protein sequences, enabling proteomics to become the contemporary technology for studying the underlying mechanisms of disease. This review will address the technologies related to proteomic research and the application of […]

Recent Developments in Combinatorial Chemistry By Dr Anthony D Baxter Combinatorial chemistry has advanced significantly from the early 1990s when it was a new science of mainly conceptual interest to today where it has evolved into a key component of the drug discovery industry. The needs of the Pharma industry have demanded that compound libraries […]

By Matthias Mann, Protein Interaction Laboratory (PIL), University of Southern Denmark Affinity proteomic methods can translate genomic data into validated targets for drug discovery. Baits such as tagged gene product or small molecules obtained from cell-based assays are used to purify interacting proteins. These proteins are then identified by high sensitivity, high throughput mass spectrometric […]