In 2006, scientists participating to the Human Liver Proteome Project (HLPP) launched
by the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) convened on two occasions to present and
discuss their progress. A workshop was held over two days in May in Bilbao, Spain, and a brief
3-hour meeting was held in October in conjunction with the 5th HUPO World Congress in Long
Beach, California. Highlights included progress on the construction of the human normal liver
proteome expression profile and of subcellular proteomes, establishment of a liver ORFeome
bank and of a liver antibody bank, identifications of protein-protein interaction maps in the liver,
application of a robust strategy for quantitative proteomics and the characterization of fatty liver
diseases using mouse models