The article is about the sequencing of the rice genome, benefits of biotechnology, beyond rice breeding, financial constraint, the cooperation with private sector, public-privatization act, International Functional Genomics Working Group and the training of the scientists.
Proteomics is a promising new tool for functional genomics. In addition to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, other methods that are based on liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry are now available to study proteins. In this brief article, we review the strengths and limitations of the proteomic approaches currently available to the researcher, and we provide examples of how proteomics has been, and can in the future be, used to study the kidney.