Methods and reagents for labeling molecules of interest in a plurality of
samples, and then combining and selecting labeled molecules away from
unlabeled molecules for use in simultaneous co-assaying analysis. The
reagents comprise labeling means of distinguishable radioactive isotopes
which remain with the labeled molecules. Additionally, the reagents also
comprise selection means which can be affinity tags, beads, or
immobilized surface which may remain or be cleaved off through cleavable
linkers. A set of labeling reagent can be used to label a plurality of
samples, combine them before or after selecting/enriching for labeled
molecules and co-assay together for reliable comparison. This invention
has many applications in comparing and panning for differentially
abundant molecules or differential modification of molecules for
proteomics, glycomics, phospho-proteomics, metabolomics, epi-genomics . .
. studies.