Introducing Proteomics

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

1 Introduction 1

1.1 What Are the Tasks in Proteomics? 1

1.2 Challenges in Proteomics 5

1.3 Proteomics in Relation to Other -omics and System Biology 10

1.4 Some General Applications of Proteomics 12

1.5 Structure of the Book 18

References 18

2 Separation and Detection Technologies 21