BioMed Central has launchedClinical Proteomicsthis week, with DrDaniel Chanas Editor-in-Chief. Previously published by Springer, the journal has joined BioMed Central’s portfolio of open-access titles.

Dr Chan writes in his launch editorial that ‘targeted proteomic diagnostics and therapeutics will be the basis of personalized molecular medicine’, and as such the journal will cover a wide range of topics within the clinical proteomics field, including translational proteomics, and will place special emphasis on the applications of proteomics technology to clinical investigations.

Clinical Proteomicslaunches with a number of interesting articles, including an article fromMehraniet al.that identifies protein expression signatures for lung damage from the warfare agent Sulfur Mustard.Rukmangadacharet al. have also identified potential protein biomarkers, for the parasitic infectionVisceral leishmaniasis; an endemic, and often fatal disease prevalent in the developing world.

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