Proteomic Reagents and Resources Core
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Click here to view the meeting summary from the 2005 Proteomic Technologies Reagents Resource Workshop. |
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Discussions with representatives from all parts of the cancer research community revealed a deep concern about the lack of access to affordable, well-characterized and validated affinity reagents and supporting resources. In order to drive the development of a central community core that would help accelerate biomarker discovery and validation, cancer diagnostics development, and therapeutics monitoring, NCI has launched the Proteomic Reagents and Resources Core. This program within CPTC will organize tools, reagents, enabling technologies, and other critical resources to support protein/peptide measurement and analysis efforts.
The Core will serve as a central (virtual) source for reagents for the scientific community and will include human and mouse tissue samples, and plasma, antibodies and affinity capture reagents, labeling reagents, protein and/or peptide mixtures, and other reagents needed for effective proteomic analysis platforms. The Reagents Resource does not intend to provide materials that are commercially available unless it is suspected that significant variation occurs between commercial lots (e.g., polyclonal antibodies).
For further information, visit the Reagent Data Portal at http://proteomics.cancer.gov/resources_funding/resources/.
To help delineate the function and the elements of the Reagent Resource, NCI convened a "Proteomics Technologies Reagents Resource Workshop" in Chicago, IL, on December 12-13, 2005. A Workshop Report was published in the October, 2006, issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.
