The question of whether the scanning of the arrays and the bioinformatic analysis should be performed locally or be centralised was also raised with some people thinking that the centralised consortium approach was better whilst others thought that there was room for individuals. The analysis hardware seems to be generally available but not all the scanners are compatible although there are only four major variations. John Sgouros pointed out that advice and support on the analysis would be needed, this would require one person full time. It was suggested that there should be a committee should be elected which could act as a forum for discussion and a point of information for the community about the different initiatives and that we should not rely on commercial enterprise. This was altogether a far more difficult problem.
Proteomics needs more people involved who understand it.
Ramsay McFarlane from Bangor is setting up Difference Gel Electrophoresis. No one knew if anything was happening in Japan or the States. Yasushi Hiraoka has made the GFP fusion library that has been updated. Mitsuhiro Yanagida has a ts mutant library of 1000 mutants. He has images and will make an image database accessible.