Peter R. Jungblut is the head of the Department of Protein Analysis, as a core facility of the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, coordinating all proteomics activities of the institute. By classical proteome analysis, his group generated a proteomic database with about 1500 identified proteins of microorganisms, eucaryotic cells and tissues. He has published more than 130 scientific articles on proteomics. Michael Hecker is a biologist and became Professor in 1986 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arnd University in Greifswald, where he is also director of the Department fo...