Front Matter -- STEERING COMMITTEE FOR DEFINING THE MANDATE OF PROTEOMICS IN THE POST-GENOMICS ERA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- SUMMARY -- Introduction -- Proteomics -- Discussion of General Topics Covered at Symposium -- Lessons Learned from the Human Genome Project -- Sources of Proteins -- Protein Separation -- Protein Identification -- Proteomics and the Problem of Function -- Applications -- Computational Methods and Bioinformatics -- Proteomics: A Coordinated International Effort -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A SPEAKER BIIOGRAPHIIES