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Lack of Affinity

Jan 12, 2007

Over at Omics! Omics!, blogger Keith Robison offers his two cents on a European consortium set to generate a slew of affinity reagents aimed at the human proteome. He writes:

They will need a lot of luck (and copious quantities of money), but the lack of off-the-shelf affinity reagents for any protein of sudden interest is a serious handicap for validating array or computational experiments, as I found all too often in my last job.

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