PICO-NGS · First time ultra-sensitive and simultaneous quantification of proteins, interactions, and post-translational modifications in single cells to enable exponential growth in proteomics and interactomics

In a human cell there are about 20k protein coding genes (genome) that originate ~100k proteins (proteome). Proteins are involved in complex networks of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) influenced by post-translational modifications (PTMs), the interactome of living cells (~800,000 entities). The genome is mostly static throughout cell lifetime and can be sequenced today in <1h. The proteome and interactome are changing with e.g., environment and health, and not yet fully known. Today's methods for proteomics and interactomics are tedious, and lack sensitivity, quantitativity and parallelism.PICO-NGS combines ultra-high sensitivity (>10 fM) with high parallelism measuring proteins, PPIs, and PTMs simultaneously (>50 targets). This will disrupt the global proteomics market (€29 B worth, 16% CAGR). This will fertilise ground-breaking academic research and accelerate developments in e.g., Pharma (drug discovery), Biotech (biomarkers/diagnosis), and Agrotech (crop sciences) industries.