Introduction to Forensic Proteomics

Abstract

Proteomics is formally defined as the study of the proteome - the set of all proteins expressed in a cell, tissue, or organism - and its changes with changing environmental conditions. In practice, the term proteomics has come mean the technologies and techniques used to identify and quantitate (in relative or absolute terms) a very large number of proteins (hundreds to thousands) in a single analysis. This chapter introduces the ways in which proteomics analysis can be applied to biological forensics.