Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, with many functions. The proteome is the entire set of prote.ins that is produ ced or modified by an organ,ism or system. Proteomics has en.abled the identification of ever increasin..g numbers of protein.Just as in the modern world there. is more than one way of being. dead, so there is more. than one way of being .published. Publication is not. a dichotomous event: rather it is a continuum. And the .academic community should. accept this, not resist it. This was one of the main conclusions of .a recent workshop in Paris, organised by Unesco, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Council of Scientific Unions, on developing practices and standards for electronic .publishing in science.. Proteomics is .the large-scale study .of proteins. Proteins are .vital parts of living organisms, with .many functions. The proteome is the entire set .of proteins that is produced or .modified by an .organism or system. Proteomics has enabled the .identification of ever increasing numbers of protein. This varies with .time and distinct requirements., or stresses., that a cell or .organism u.ndergoes. Proteomics .is an interdisciplinary .domain that has benefitted greatly from the genetic information of various genome projects, including the Human Genome Project. I.t covers the exploration of proteomes from the overall level of protein composition., structure, .and activity.. It is an important .component of functional genomics..