(Marc Wilkins（1994))
A study of proteome using the technologies of large-scale protein separation, identification and quantitation.
The study of proteins, how they're modified, when and where they're expressed, how they're involved in metabolic pathways and how they interact with one another.
簡而言之：蛋白質組就是一個特定的生物系統中（特定時間、空間）存在的所有蛋白質及其相互作用