Macrophage proteins: structure, function and e-science

人类基因组在五年前就已经公布了，但在成千上万的编码蛋白质中，只有一小部分的功能是已知的。开发更智能、更快速的方法来阐明未表征蛋白质的结构和功能，对于知识经济和健康社会至关重要。对社区的长期利益将包括基本的新知识，新药物的产生和新的电子科学方法的开发，以简化研究的成本和努力，并使科学更容易为公众所用。

The human genome was published five years ago, yet the functions of only a small fraction of the tens of thousands of encoded proteins are known. The development of smarter and faster methods for elucidating the structure and function of uncharacterised proteins is vital to a knowledge-based economy and a healthy society. The long-term benefits to the community will include fundamental new knowledge, generation of new pharmaceuticals and the development of new eScience approaches to streamline costs and efforts of research and to make science more accessible to the public.