::I would like to bring up a point of discussion with this proposal and to be clear I have not made up my mind: Not all protein mass spectrometry can really be considered mass spectrometry-based proteomics. With that being said there certainly is a slippery slope that these fields as a whole has progressed down where anything protein is becoming proteomics. Do the majority of people in these fields consider the study of how many protons can charge a single well purified protein standard or perhaps synthetic small protein or studying the ionization of proteins in novel MALDI matrices, or how gas phase protein complexes dissociate via different fragmentation mechanisms to be "mass spectrometry-based proteomics"? Being slightly old school, I tend not to. I consider proteomics to involve somewhere between "large-scale". i.e. cells, organelles, sub cellular fractions etc. and "focused proteomics", a highly purified but not to homogeneity fraction, but always focused on measuring the complement of proteins in a biological organism. By comparison, the biophysics of a synthetic DNA molecule passing through a synthetic porous material is hardly genomics. Clearly protein mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry-based proteomics both exist and are interrelated, but are they the same?