Evaluating strategies to normalise biological replicates of western blot data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Degasperi, Andrea ^a   Birtwistle, Marc R ^b   Volinsky, Natalia ^a   Rauch, Jens ^a   Kolch, Walter ^a   Kholodenko, Boris N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; DENSITOMETRY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FIXED NORMALISATION POINT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; NORMALISATION BY SUM; OPTICAL DENSITY; OPTIMAL ALIGNMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MCF-7 CELLS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84900328188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087293     Document Type: Article

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