From a genome sequence to that protein in your hand is a
well –established process
Until I started collaborating closely with biologists ten
years ago, my impression of how easy it was to get a sample of a complex
biomolecule like a protein was based on popular science stories describing
days/months of tedious purification of buckets of biomass (sea sponges, exotic fungi,
cow bile, etc) to end up with a single vial containing so little it was
invisible to the naked eye.
Follow the link to see the schematic explained.
