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ReviewMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

SomaScan Bioinformatics: Normalization, Quality Control, and Assessment of Pre-Analytical Variation.

Julián Candia

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Review in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Circulating proteomic landscape of lung function.The European respiratory journal · 2026
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  11. Long-term temporal stability of circulating proteins in older adults.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Julián CandiaLongitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. julian.candia@nih.gov.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SomaScan is an aptamer-based proteomics assay designed for the simultaneous measurement of thousands of human proteins with a broad range of endogenous concentrations. In its most current version released on November 1, 2023, the 11K SomaScan assay v5.0 is capable of measuring 10,776 human proteins covering major biological processes and disease areas, including cardiology, inflammation, neurology, and oncology. Here, I review bioinformatic approaches to perform normalization, quality control, and variability assessments.

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Computational BiologyProteomicsHumansQuality ControlSoftwareBioinformaticsNormalizationPAVPre-analytical variationQCQuality controlSomaScanSomaSignal Test

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PMID40601147

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