Bangalore: The existence of several novel proteins in the human body that were never observed or predicted has been uncovered in a two-year project conducted by a group of Indian American scentists and their counterparts here, creating what has been described as a "catalogue" that is now available as an interactive web-based resource.

It was more than a decade ago that scientists published the draft human genome sequence - an inventory of all the genes in humans - under the Human Genome project. However, an equivalent map for the human "proteome" with direct measurements of proteins and peptides did not exist so far.