Benchmark Achievements

摘要

Research activities on structural genomics involve three-dimensional structural and functional analyses of all the proteins concerned to elucidate the overall picture of molecular mechanisms in various biological processes. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) started the National Project on Protein Structural and Functional Analyses (sometimes referred to as the Protein 3000 Project as an unofficial translation of the Japanese project name) as the Japanese national project on structural genomics in April 2002. The aim of the Project is to accumulate our knowledge base on protein structures as well as functions and to apply it to genome-based drug discovery and development.