Thursday, March 24, 2022

HPAStainR - What is that protein doing here??

Wow, did I just accidentally stumbled onto something super useful while looking for something completely different! 
You know how you're digging through a protein list and -- based on annotation you might ask -- 


Does this liver cell express this protein that the accession says is a neuronal thing? Is the accession wrong or did I mess up really bad? 

The accessions of most proteins are interesting in a historical sense -- like some dude or dudette in 1984 stumbled across it while pumping fruit flies full of radioactive cesium in an attempt to create an even more powerful hairspray -- but they can be misleading or confusing on the surface. 

What if there was a way to quickly look at protein expression -- across the Human Protein Atlas?!?!

That's exactly what HPAStainR does! 




Turns out that "neurowhatever" protein is highly expressed in every tissue! 


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