Welcome to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium Home Page.
Structural genomics is a new and rapidly developing field in biology.
The goal of this field is to discover and analyze the structures of all protein molecules in nature in order to provide a foundation for a fundamental understanding of biology. Consortium researchers have been leaders in the national and international effort to develop ideas for this field and to engage the worldwide biological community in discussing and advancing the field. Structural genomics is closely tied to functional genomics, the identification of functions of all proteins in nature, and to genomic sequencing, the determination of the genetic blueprints of all organisms. Together these fields will revolutionize biology over the next two decades. We will determine the structures of over 400 proteins from M. tuberculosis, and analyze these structures in the context of functional information that currently exists and that we generate.