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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2010, Article ID 840518, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/840518
Review Article

Mass Spectrometry-Based Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics

Wenhong Zhu,1 Jeffrey W. Smith,1 and Chun-Ming Huang2

1Center on Proteolytic Pathways, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, 10901 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
2Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA

Received 1 July 2009; Accepted 1 September 2009

Academic Editor: Pieter C. Dorrestein

Copyright © 2010 Wenhong Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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