IN AN ARTICLE in The Scientist recently published, Marc Vidal, a geneticist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, reminds us that “. . .the proteome is vast. It’s like terra incognita,. . . we have a few settlers, we have to explore a huge amount of space. . .” (7a). There is astounding complexity to protein science, and we are just starting to comprehend the magnitude of the question....