2000年夏天,科学家完成了人类基因组“工作草图”的制作。现在人类基因组计划将进入尾声,而一个以蛋白质组和药物基因学为研究重点的后基因组时代已经拉开序幕。人类细胞中的全部基因被称为基因组,由全套基因组编码控制的蛋白质则相应地被称为蛋白质组。美国塞莱拉公司首席科学家文特尔在今年年初举行的美国科学促进协会科学年会上说, In the summer of 2000, scientists completed the production of the human genome “Work Sketch.” Now that the human genome project is coming to an end, an era of post-genomic research focused on proteomics and pharmacogenomics has begun. All of the genes in a human cell are called the genome, and the proteins that are controlled by the full set of genomic codes are called the proteome accordingly. Vettel, chief scientist for the United States Celera, said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the beginning of this year,