Peptide Arrays in Proteomics and Drug Discovery.

Array technology has become a powerful tool for today's high throughput approaches in biology and chemistry. These large-scale technologies emerged mainly from the genomics field driven by the human genome project and other species sequencing efforts. The associated development of many new technologies led to the initiation of several additional "omics" fields such as proteomics, lipidomics, glycomics and others. Scientists in these fields subsequently demanded tools that allow rapid and reliable characterization of large numbers of molecules of very different natures including nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, peptides, and small molecules with very small amounts of biological or synthetic material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]