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October 2001

The Human Proteome

From the editor in chief

By John Benditt

In a scientific paper written to support his doctoral thesis, Wilkins kept having to write the clumsy phrase "all proteins expressed by a genome." After trying a couple of other contenders that failed to roll off the tongue, he settled on "proteome." In September 1994, Wilkins used the new coinage at a scientific conference in Italy. His audience bought it.

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