<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>In recent months a bumper crop of genomes has been completed, including the fission yeast
(<italic>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</italic>) and rice (<italic>Oryza sativa</italic>). Two large-scale studies of
<italic>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</italic> protein complexes provided a picture of the eukaryotic proteome
as a network of complexes. Amongst the other stories of interest was a demonstration that
proteomic analysis of blood samples can be used to detect ovarian cancer, perhaps even as
early as stage I.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Jun; 3(3):221-225