What are some of the challenges to proteomics research?
Proteomics data are being collected at a faster pace than the ability of the researchers to validate, interpret, and integrate them with other known data. There is a great need to make data portable and comparable. Software tools are needed in all areas of data analysis, including data collection, storage, searching, analysis, classification, management, archiving, and retrieval. In June 2005, NCI’s Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) approved a Clinical Proteomics Technologies Initiative, a $104 million program aimed at optimizing current proteomics technologies and developing new technologies, reagents, and systems to significantly advance the field of cancer proteomics research. This initiative is not specific to the National Institutes of Health Bethesda campus, which housed the program in which Petricoin and Liotta worked and Kohn currently works. Rather, it is open to the broad cancer research community. The initiative builds on a 2-year process that sought feedback from the resea
