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22nd of November 2015
Dark proteomes: the dark matter of the protein universe
A recent CSIRO press release, "Secrets of the dark proteome", features work by Sean O'Donoghue, a data visualisation scientist with CSIRO and the Garvan Institute, and his collaborators on proteins. The naming of these dark proteins - ie proteins with completely unknown structure - was inspired by the analogy to dark matter. For details see the research paper "Unexpected features of the dark proteome".

Image caption: CSIRO's 3D visualisation tool, Aquaria, is helping to map the dark proteome using information from the Protein Data Bank.


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