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ArticleProteomics2022

A pre-processing pipeline to quantify, visualize, and reduce technical variation in protein microarray studies.

Sophie Bérubé, Tamaki Kobayashi, Amy Wesolowski, Douglas E Norris, Ingo Ruczinski, William J Moss, Thomas A Louis

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Sophie BérubéDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1307-4757
Tamaki KobayashiDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Amy WesolowskiDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Douglas E NorrisW. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ingo RuczinskiDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
William J MossDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Thomas A LouisDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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TransmissionU19AI089680 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAM J MOSS · 2010 to 2026
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NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089680
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Abstract

Technical variation, or variation from non-biological sources, is present in most laboratory assays. Correcting for this variation enables analysts to extract a biological signal that informs questions of interest. However, each assay has different sources and levels of technical variation, and the choice of correction methods can impact downstream analyses. Compared to similar assays such as DNA microarrays, relatively few methods have been developed and evaluated for protein microarrays, a versatile tool for measuring levels of various proteins in serum samples. Here, we propose a pre-processing pipeline to correct for some common sources of technical variation in protein microarrays. The pipeline builds upon an existing normalization method by using controls to reduce technical variation. We evaluate our method using data from two protein microarray studies and by simulation. We demonstrate that pre-processing choices impact the fluorescent-intensity based ranks of proteins, which in turn, impact downstream analysis.

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Gene Expression ProfilingProtein Array AnalysisComputer SimulationOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisBland-Atlman plotsmeasurement agreementnormalizationproteomics

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PMID34668656
PMCPMC11849410

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