Proteomic Reagents and Resources Core
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Click here to view the meeting summary from the 2005 Proteomic Technologies Reagents Resource Workshop. (PDF, Size: 141 KB) |
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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, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Proteomic Reagents and Resources Core. This program within the Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) initiative organizes tools, reagents, enabling technologies, and other critical resources to support protein/peptide measurement and analysis efforts.
The Core serves as a central (virtual) source for reagents for the scientific community and includes 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 Core does not 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 Reagents Data Portal at http://proteomics.cancer.gov/resources_funding/resources/.
For further information about CPTC’s support of data sharing in the proteomics community visit the CPTC data sharing page
