The Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) was launched on February 9, 2001 and has a mandate of fostering international proteomic initiatives to better understand human disease. Presently there are eleven scientific initiatives each of which is based in one country, but is international in scope. Each year we host an Annual World Congress as well as numerous regional activities.

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The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) was formed in 1969 to promote and disseminate knowledge of mass spectrometry and allied topics. Membership includes over 7,500 scientists involved in research and development. Members come from academic, industrial and governmental laboratories. Their interests include advancement of techniques and instrumentation in mass spectrometry, as well as fundamental research in chemistry, geology, forensics, biological sciences and physics.

ASMS sponsors the Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics that is attended by more than 6,500 scientists. Nearly 3,000 papers are presented as posters and talks.   ASMS also has a peer reviewed monthly journal with a comprehensive range of research and development in mass spectrometry, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry,

The objectives of the British Society for Proteome Research (BSPR) are to advance the science of proteomics and to promote the study and research work in this and related areas for the benefit of all. It enables scientists working in this field to keep up-to-date with current developments both nationally and internationally and to meet and exchange ideas with other workers. Unlike many learned societies we have members from a wide range of organisations including industry and the health service, as well as research and academic institutions.

The HPI program stopped in November 2008 after the release of the first complete set of human proteins. This annotation program has been replaced by the program CD2 (Core Data for Chordata).

The Human Proteome Initiative (HPI) aims to annotate all known human protein sequences, as well as their orthologous sequences in other mammals, according to the quality standards of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. In addition to accurate sequences, we strive to provide, for each protein, a wealth of information that includes the description of its function, domain structure, subcellular location, similarities to other proteins, etc.  About 21'000 human genes encode one million different proteins.

Our mission: to promote research and education in the science of Proteomics in Switzerland as well as in other countries.

The Protein Society is the leading international society devoted to furthering research and development in protein science.  The purpose of the Society is to provide international forums to facilitate communication, cooperation and collaboration with respect to all aspects of the study of proteins.  The Protein Society is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization that was founded in 1986 to consolidate the knowledge and experience of a global community of protein scientists and to explore all aspects of the building blocks of life: protein molecules.  The Protein Society is a member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), a coalition of 22 independent societies that plays an active role in lobbying for the interests of biomedical scientists.

The ProteomExchange consortium has been set up to provide a single point of submission to proteomics repositories, and encourage the data exchange and sharing of identifiers between the repositories so that the community may easily find datasets in the participating repositories.

The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) is a federal, university and industry effort aimed at dramatically reducing the costs and lessening the time it takes to determine a three-dimensional protein structure. The initial goal of the PSI was to make the three-dimensional, atomic-level structures of most proteins easily obtainable from knowledge of their corresponding DNA sequences. During the PSI:Biology phase, highly organized networks of investigators will apply the new paradigm of high-throughput structure determination, which was successfully developed during the earlier phases of the PSI, to study a broad range of important biological and biomedical problems.

The European Proteomics Association (EuPA) is the federation of European national proteomics societies. It has been established to coordinate and integrate national initiatives within the proteomics field. The main objectives are to strengthen and promote fundamental research and applications, as well as education and training in all areas of proteomics throughout Europe. EuPA is a non-profit organisation.

Italian Proteomics Association

ProteoRed is a National Network for coordination, integration and development of Spanish Proteomics Facilities providing proteomics services for suporting Spanish researches in the field of genomics and proteomics.

ProCura is a virtual network organization whose members are laboratories of Portuguese research institutions of excellence or renowned universities. The network aims at bringing together these Portuguese laboratories to share their expertise and facilities to form a collaborative platform on the functional proteomics technology, in order to contribute to the understanding of gene function in the post-genomic era.

Welcome to the Canadian National Proteomics Network's (CNPN) website.

CNPN is a not-for-profit federally incorporated organization created to provide a cooperative mechanism for building the proteomics research infrastructure in Canada to further a better understanding of proteomics in the Canadian life sciences community and to sponsor scientific conferences, seminars and forums to create a national focus for scientific collaboration and education.

German Society for Proteome Research

General objectives / statutes

· To support the extension of scientific knowledge in the field of proteome research. · Communication of such know-how via a network comprising academic institutions, commercial companies, and special institutions for proteome research at national and international levels. · Management of national resource projects (to facilitate central resources) in the areas of red and green biotechnology. · Announcement of opportunities for project funding and contact addresses for collaboration projects.    · Co-ordination of national research projects. · Establishment of technology standards (quality criteria). · Public relations, presence on the internet, presence at commercial exhibitions, and internal communication. · Consultant function for the BMBF in questions related to proteome research. · Representation of the German proteome research in EU, HUPO, and other international proteome organisations. · Collaboration with regulatory authorities.

The Hellenic Proteomics Society is a non-profit organization established with the goal to promote the proteomics science in Greek research institutions and to establish international collaborations in Proteomics and related fields.

Latin American HUPO

Engage in scientific and educational activities to encourage the spread of proteomics technologies and to disseminate knowledge pertaining to the human proteome and that of model organisms. Assist in the coordination of public proteome initiatives.

Japan HUPO

Our aim:
The Swedish Proteomics Society (SPS) intends to promote activities within the Proteomics field in Sweden and also acts as an interface to the international Proteomics programs.

Organisation:
The birth of the Swedish Proteomics Society in late 2002 was a natural consequence of the high interest in Sweden for protein expression profiling linked to a strong position in biomedichal-, biotech, and biology area in general, that combines genomics, protein chemistry and molecular biology.

The Swedish Proteomics Society is currently a part of the Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Apotekarsocieteten). Scientists from different parts of Sweden and also Denmark are active in the committee (listed below).

The American Peptide Society (APS), a nonprofit scientific and educational organization founded in 1990, provides a forum for advancing and promoting knowledge of the chemistry and biology of peptides. The approximately one thousand members of the Society come from North America and from more than thirty other countries throughout the world. Establishment of the American Peptide Society was a result of the rapid worldwide growth that has occurred in peptide-related research, and of the increasing interaction of peptide scientists with virtually all fields of science.

On the 7th of July 2006, the Austrian Proteomics Association (AuPA) was founded in Vienna, Austria.

The goal of our organization is the promotion of basic sciences and the enhancement of methods and their development with regard to all sciences involved in Proteomics, especially in Austria.

The AuPA is also an official member of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA), which comprises the federation of the national European associations.

Trying to provide a platform for bringing together the various widespread Austrian groups we additionally endeavour to coordinate and promote the national and international interests.

The proteomics platform was formed in the end of 2000 as an initiative of Connie Jiménez (VUmc, Amsterdam) in order to stimulate the exchange of knowledge/information between Dutch research groups that engage in fast-moving field of proteome research. During the kick-off meeting, Feb. 8, 2001 in Amsterdam, with about 60 participants representing scientists from academic, industrial and governmental laboratories, it was decided to become a 'werkgroep' of the Dutch Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology http://www.kncv.nl/secties/nvbmb/defaultNVBMB.html.

Korean HUPO

La Société Française d'Electrophorèse et d'Analyse Protéomique (SFEAP)

a pour but d'encourager, de promouvoir et de réaliser toute action pour favoriser
 le développement des techniques et méthodes basées sur l'utilisation de l'électrophorèse
  ainsi que tout autre procédé de fractionnement et d'analyse des molécules biologiques.

Asia Oceania HUPO

• To promote the international exchange of knowledge and research techniques via training fellowships, instructional courses and workshops, as well as organization and funding for international meetings;
• To provide expert advice to governmental and non-governmental agencies on the support of human and other proteome research;
• To collect and distribute information on human and other proteome-related programs and projects;
• To promote open access to major resources for human proteome analysis, such as databases, collections of DNA clones, cell lines and other biological samples; and
• To act as liaison with other international organizations involved in proteome research and related development and providing support for or assistance with their activities.

The Plasma Proteome Institute is working to facilitate clinical adoption of advanced diagnostic tests using proteins in plasma and serum.

US HUPO engages in scientific and educational activities to encourage the use of proteomics technologies and to disseminate knowledge pertaining to the human proteome and that of model organisms.

Danish Proteomics Society

Norwegian Proteomics Society

Norwegian Proteomics Society is established to promote proteomics-related research, activities and training in Norway, as well as facilitate collaboration with other national societies.

The Aims of APS

-organise and manage conferences concerning advances in Proteomics

-promote proteomics research in Australia and New Zealand

-act as a liaison body for government exchange

-facilitate interactions with other local, national and international proteome research bodies

-promote the national/international exchange of knowledge and research techniques via training fellowships, instructional courses and workshops, including organization and funding for international conferences

-collect and distribute information on proteome-related programs, projects and technologies as an Australasian resource

-promote open access to major resources for proteome analysis

Taiwan Proteomic Society (TPS) was established in 2003. Andrew H.-J. Wang, currently the vice president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan , organized the very first society member meeting in Taipei . Approximately 40 founding members participated in the first meeting. The main focus of the meeting was to promote awareness of emerging proteomics research to the scientific communities in Taiwan and to create educational infrastructure for college-level students in learning basic knowledge in proteomics. The meeting was successfully echoed by his colleagues and Ministry of Education, resulting proteomics courses taught in many universities and a textbook published in Chinese on proteomics prepared by a cooperative effort from scientists in Taiwan . During May 15^th-17^th in 2004, TPS hosted its first conference, 3^rd International Proteomics Conference 2004 (IPC’03), 1^st Taiwan Proteomics Conference, Joint Meeting of AOHUPO 2004 (1). The conference was a joint meeting organized by TPS and Asia Oceania HUPO (AOHUPO). Interestingly, the conference was held in 2004 yet termed as IPC’03 because it was supposed to happen in 2003 but delayed due to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in southestern asia .

The Iranian Proteomics Society established in early 2005 with the goal to promote the proteomics in Iranian research institutions and universities and to establish national and international collaborations in Proteomics and related fields. The Iranian Proteomics Society is a registered institute (Number 967) and aims to advance the science of proteomics, to further public education therein and to promote research and study in proteomics and related subjects for the public benefit. 

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