摘要:Di®erence gel electrophoresis (DIGE) is the new gold standard analysing complex
protein mixtures in proteomics. It is used for measuring the expression levels of
proteins in di®erent mixtures on the same two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE)
gel. In this paper we review a method for the calibration and normalization of those
protein expression measurements. Further we show how to ¯nd treatment e®ects and
time-treatment-interactions in longitudinal data obtained from DIGE experiments.
A problem in those data sets is the existence of a lot of missing values. Therefore,
we propose a method for the estimation of missing data points.
关键词:di®erence gel electrophoresis; data calibration; mixed linear model for longitudinal
data; missing values; proteomics.