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Too many roads not taken

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Most protein research focuses on those known before the human genome was mapped. Work on the slew discovered since, urge Aled M. Edwards and his colleagues.

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  1. Aled M. Edwards is Banbury professor at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.,

    Aled M. Edwards

  2. Ruth Isserlin is at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.,

    Ruth Isserlin

  3. Gary D. Bader is at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.,

    Gary D. Bader

  4. Stephen V. Frye is at the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.,

    Stephen V. Frye

  5. Timothy M. Willson is at GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.,

    Timothy M. Willson

  6. Frank H. Yu is in the Program in Neurobiology and Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 110-749, South Korea.,

    Frank H. Yu

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Aled Edwards directs the Structural Genomics Consortium, an organization that is funded in part to generate research tools and place them in the public domain without restriction on use.

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Edwards, A., Isserlin, R., Bader, G. et al. Too many roads not taken. Nature 470, 163–165 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470163a

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