Cynthia Gibas , research assistant professor at Virginia Tech and a member of the bioinformatics initiative screening committee, says that her institution will be hiring seven faculty members and 20 other support staff members, which includes postdocs, technicians, and graduate students during the program's first year. Biology is moving more and more in that direction. This is why the Virginia program concentrates heavily on undergraduate education. Primed Proteomics With the flood of gene sequence information, the next step is to understand the function of the proteins they encode. A proteome is the current jargon for all of the proteins encoded by a specific genome, and genome is the name for all the genes in an individual or species.
Proteomics depends on bioinformatics because of the large amount of information that's generated.
At least a dozen biotech companies have aligned themselves as critical competitors, the latest being Celera. But it's industry that can afford to do the most hiring. This field is so new that many techniques are still in development. People are also needed who understand protein expression, enzymology, protein signaling pathways, and the relationships of these molecular interactions to human disease. Michelle Graham Michelle Graham , director of leadership development and strategic staffing at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., echoes Curran.