Targeted Proteomics named Method of the Year 2012
Nature Methods has realized the power and importance of targeted proteomics -in particular SRM based- and named it Method of the Year 2012.
New method and tool developments are helping to bring targeted proteome analysis technologies to a broader array of biologists.
At the close of 2012 at Nature Methods, we continue our annual celebration of biological research methods with our choice of targeted proteomics as Method of the Year.
Our choice is a little different from those of previous years, when we highlighted very new, cutting-edge techniques such as next-generation sequencing (2007), super-resolution microscopy (2008) and optogenetics (2010). Broadly speaking, methods for targeted protein analysis date back to the introduction of the radioimmunoassay in the 1960s. Antibody reagents have long been indispensable research tools, allowing biologists to pull out their protein of interest from a complex biological sample or detect their protein in a tissue slice or in a western blot.
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