Fixing Proteomics Campaign

ProteoMonitor feature about Fixing Proteomics

15 October 2008

Following on from their article last year, ProteoMonitor have published a new article looking at the Fixing Proteomics Campaign

The campaign, Fixing Proteomics, debuted a year ago by a group of researchers and industry executives to recharge a field that had begun to buckle under the weight of what some consider unrealistic expectations and underwhelming results. One of its credos: If a lab's results cannot be reproduced "then they should not be published." More...

When the first article was published, the website had only been live for a month. Now, less than a year later, over 3,000 people have been exposed to the Fixing Proteomics Campaign messages. However, depending on which reports you believe as to how many proteomics researchers there are in labs around the world, this could translate to only a small amount of global audience.

The awareness is starting to build at the right time. People are talking about it on web forums and conversations at conferences show the message is reaching small labs and big names in proteomics. The need for reproducibility of proteomics experiments was a topic spoken about at HUPO 2008 directly and indirectly by the researchers and the people who fund the research. So Fixing Proteomics is helping to change attitudes and activity across the entire proteomics community, and is in a perfect position to carry on doing this.