Sequencing the human genome is just the beginning. What we really should be covering as science writers, it seems, is proteomics.
Proteomics is all about the proteins that the genome tells an organism to make.
But that s as far as the science lesson goes. If anyone wants more, I recommend that they get hold of the proteomics backgrounder in among the press pack from GlaxoWellcome that went with the launch of The year ahead in science , the new well updated and moved web site for events in science. The pack also had slides from Professor Denis Hochstrasser and Walter Blackstock, the two scientists who spoke at the launch of the web site at Tate Britain. Hochstrasser is head of the Central Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. Blackstock leads the Cell Map Project at Glaxo Wellcome.