The PMMA-2DPAGE database a new member of federated two-dimensional electrophoresis databases: A simple means of publishing two-dimensional electrophoresis data

Proteome analysis is a relatively new technology providing information abou t the quantitative changes in protein expression under precisely defined co nditions. This procedure should complete data obtained by DNA sequencing an d should offer new objectives for biological and medical studies. Likewise DNA sequencing, proteome study is a high throughput technology producing hu ge amounts of data that need to be exchanged. For this purpose, large netwo rked databases of proteins separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis are constructed. This paper describes the formation of the first Czech dat abase of this kind which can be used by the Czech scientific community for publishing the results of proteome studies.