QuantProReloaded: quantitative analysis of microspot immunoassays

Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 1;26(19):2480-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq443. Epub 2010 Aug 12.

Abstract

Protein microarrays are well-established as sensitive tools for proteomics. Particularly, the microspot immunoassay (MIA) platform enables a quantitative analysis of (phospho-) proteins in complex solutions (e.g. cell lysates or blood plasma) and with low consumption of samples and reagents. Despite numerous biological and clinical applications of MIAs there is currently no user-friendly open source data analysis software available with versatile options for data analysis and data visualization. Here, we introduce the open source software QuantProReloaded that is specifically designed for the analysis of data from MIA experiments.

Availability and implementation: QuantProReloaded is written in R and Java and is open for download under the BSB license at http://code.google.com/p/quantproreloaded/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Immunoassay / methods*
  • Protein Array Analysis / methods*
  • Proteome / analysis
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Proteome