The Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) is an international consortium of national
proteomics
Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital macromolecules of all living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replicatio ...
research associations, government researchers, academic institutions, and industry partners. The organization was launched in February 2001, and it promotes the development and awareness of proteomics research, advocates on behalf of proteomics researchers throughout the world, and facilitates scientific collaborations between members and initiatives. Ultimately, it is organized to gain a better and more complete understanding of the human
proteome
A proteome is the entire set of proteins that is, or can be, expressed by a genome, cell, tissue, or organism at a certain time. It is the set of expressed proteins in a given type of cell or organism, at a given time, under defined conditions. P ...
.
Congress
Since 2002, HUPO organizes one international congress each year, with past congresses held in
Cancun in 2022, virtually in 2021 and 2020,
Adelaide
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in 2019,
Orlando
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* Orlando, Florida, a city in the United States
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in 2018, in
Dublin
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in 2017, in
Taipei
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in 2016 and in
Vancouver
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2015.
Awards
HUPO awards multiple awards each year,
among them the
* Distinguished Service Award
* Translational Proteomics Award
* Science & Technology Award
* Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award
* Distinguished Achievement Award in Proteomic Sciences
See also
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Human Genome Organisation
The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1988. HUGO represents an international coordinating scientific body in response to initiatives such as the Human Genome Project. HUGO has four active committees, includi ...
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Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...
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Proteomics Standards Initiative The Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) is a working group of the Human Proteome Organization. It aims to define data standards for proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.
The Proteomics Standards Initiative focuse ...
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Human Proteome Project
The Human Proteome Project (HPP) is a collaborative effort coordinated by the Human Proteome Organization. Its stated goal is to experimentally observe all of the proteins produced by the sequences translated from the human genome.
History
The Hu ...
References
External links
HUPO
Proteomics organizations
Research projects
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