Proteomics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The overwhelming entry of proteomics into the scientific world [1], catapulted scientists into the era of bio-complexity of the living matter. Researchers have always been self-questioning about the essence of life, often receiving inadequate and frustrating responses. Unexpectedly, since the middle of the last century, the perspective of research has changed profoundly: a “Copernican revolution” was raised by the publication of the DNA structure in 1953 by Watson and Crick, as is well known. The long wave of this discovery influenced research for many years. It was thought to have discovered the secret of life and that the genes were the absolute protagonists of creation, reproduction, and biodiversity of the species. Subsequently, in 1970, Crick coined the central dogma of biology "a gene-a RNA-a protein", which confirmed the hypothesis of "an enzyme-a gene" formulated by Horowitz and Leupold in 1951.