Bioinformatics in the human interactome project

‘In the early days of the Human Interactome Project, ameeting was organized...’. Perhaps, a few years from now,newspapers will describe in those terms how straightforwardit was to plan the large-scale mapping of protein interactionsin human and other model organisms. Scientists attending thesecond Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust symposiumon ‘Interactome Networks’¹ know well that thingsare not that easy. Important scientific, technical and sociologicalissues remain before the ‘Human Interactome Project’can be considered on its way. But things