Laboratory science seemed a logical way to understand nature better, and Andrews eventually graduated from Georgia Tech in chemistry. During his time at Michigan, Andrews has studied how insulin is processed by the body, examined how proteins are activated, and designed a drug to reverse the effect of heparin, an anti-clotting drug given to patients undergoing surgery. Celera, the Maryland company led by maverick scientist Craig Venter, is racing the publicly funded Human Genome Project to be first to decipher the entire genetic code. An Australian scientist, Marc Wilkins, coined the term in 1994, to refer to the large-scale study of an organism's proteins. Proteins, not genes, do the work of biology.
Proteins are to genes as buildings are to blueprints.
The goal of proteomics is to make sense of the genetic code through an understanding of proteins. Biologists have always looked at proteins, but until recently they have studied them individually. Proteomics proposes to examine thousands of proteins at once. The separation of ions in an electric field. For macromolecules, this is usually done in a water-swellable matrix like polyacrylamide or agarose which perform sieving functions and reduce convection.