Detecting significant changes in protein abundance

We review and demonstrate how an empirical Bayes method, shrinking a protein's sample variance towards a pooled estimate, leads to far more powerful and stable inference to detect significant changes in protein abundance compared to ordinary t-tests. Using examples from isobaric mass labelled p...

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Main Authors: Kai Kammers, Robert N. Cole, Calvin Tiengwe, Ingo Ruczinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-06-01
Series:EuPA Open Proteomics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212968515000069