The 2025 Report on the Human Proteome from the HUPO Human Proteome Project

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Authors: Eric W. Deutsch, Cecilia Lindskog, Bogdan Budnik, Claudia Ctortecka, Tiannan Guo, Charles Pineau, G. Zhang, Marie Andken, Chenfei Zheng, Zhi Sun, Jonathan M. Mudge, Sandra Orchard
+11 more Christopher M. Overall, Nicolle H. Packer, Susan T. Weintraub, Michael H. A. Roehrl, Edouard C. Nice, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Uwe Völker, Nuno Bandeira, Ruedi Aebersold, Robert L. Moritz, Gilbert S. Omenn
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Abstract

The HUPO Human Proteome Project (HPP) aims to complete the human protein parts list by detecting evidence of expression and of function for all proteins in the human proteome, and make proteomics an integral part of multiomics studies of health and disease. Here we describe the state of the 2025 HPP reference proteome of 19,435 proteins, based on GENCODE v48, UniProtKB 2025_03, Human Protein Atlas 24, MassIVE-KB 2023, and PeptideAtlas 2025-01. We evaluate the progress in the past year, with 93.6% of the proteome detected, and examine the proteins that have not yet been detected to determine where further progress can be made. We also evaluate the progress in determining at least one function for every protein in the HPP target list, finding an increase of 288 proteins in the highest category (FE1) to 5562. Finally, we provide highlights from 12 Biology/Disease-based HPP initiatives, HPP resource pillars, and π-HuB.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Publication details

Journal / source
Journal of Proteome Research
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
539–555
Publication date
5 January 2026
Language
EN