About the Center

The University of Victoria Proteomics Centre has been in operation since 2001. It grew from the University of Victoria Protein Chemistry facility under the direction of Dr. Robert Olafson and is the longest operational protein core facility in Canada, providing protein analytical services to Canadian and international, academic, industrial and government laboratories. Supported by collaborative relationships with Genome BC and Genome Prairie, our mandate is to offer investigators the highest quality protein analytical services in the shortest period of time. Based upon a cost recovery financing model, the Proteomics Centre provides full high-throughput proteomics services including 2D gel electrophoresis, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and peptide mass mapping, 2D-LC MS/MS peptide sequencing, iTRAQ protein expression analysis, conventional Edman protein microsequence analysis, robotic 2D gel processing and documentation, protein database searching and an array of other computer-based analytical services including antigenic epitope prediction.