“…Thus, proteomics, which is concerned with the comprehensive characterization of all facets of protein biology, including the determination of protein localization, modifications, interactions, activities, and, ultimately, their function (17), is particularly well-suited for advancing our understanding of complex disease mechanisms at the systems level (15). Unfortunately, unlike the genome, which is considered to be largely static, the proteome is highly dynamic owing to a large dynamic range of protein expression as well as considerable complexity that can be attributed to a myriad protein forms, or “proteoforms” (48), arising from mutations, truncations, alternative splicing events, and the addition of post-translational modifications (PTMs), which makes analysis of the proteome technically challenging.…”