Proteomics - Boom or Bust?

Although the fanfare and not just a little hype that surrounded the release of the (almost) complete human genome was a little theatrical for my taste, it clearly marked a watershed in human scientific endeavors and was unquestionably the product of the efforts of a relatively small number of visionaries. Unlike other mammoth biological projects, such as the “War on Cancer” of the 1970s, this endeavor had a reasonably well defined goal that was...