Peptide Biomarkers: Exploring the Diagnostic Aspect

Background: In the past few decades, with the upsurge of various deadly diseases, development of accurate diagnostic methods is inevitable for maintaining good health. There is an urgent requirement of specific and sensitive biomarkers in order to improve diagnosis, guide molecular targeted therapy, and predict and examine therapeutic response across a wide spectrum of disease. Keywords: Diagnostic peptides, peptide modification, imaging biomarkers, non-imaging biomarkers, peptidomics, peptide microarray.