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Comparative Study
. 2003 Oct;3(10):1936-46.
doi: 10.1002/pmic.200300544.

Comparison of PDQuest and Progenesis software packages in the analysis of two-dimensional electrophoresis gels

Arsi T Rosengren  1 , Jussi M Salmi, Tero Aittokallio, Jan Westerholm, Riitta Lahesmaa, Tuula A Nyman, Olli S Nevalainen
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Comparative Study

Comparison of PDQuest and Progenesis software packages in the analysis of two-dimensional electrophoresis gels

Arsi T Rosengren et al. Proteomics. 2003 Oct.

Abstract

Efficient analysis of protein expression by using two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) data relies on the use of automated image processing techniques. The overall success of this research depends critically on the accuracy and the reliability of the analysis software. In addition, the software has a profound effect on the interpretation of the results obtained, and the amount of user intervention demanded during the analysis. The choice of analysis software that best meets specific needs is therefore of interest to the research laboratory. In this paper we compare two advanced analysis software packages, PDQuest and Progenesis. Their evaluation is based on quantitative tests at three different levels of standard 2-DE analysis: spot detection, gel matching and spot quantitation. As test materials we use three gel sets previously used in a similar comparison of Z3 and Melanie, and three sets of gels from our own research. It was observed that the quality of the test gels critically influences the spot detection and gel matching results. Both packages were sensitive to the parameter or filter settings with respect to the tendency of finding true positive and false positive spots. Quantitation results were very accurate for both analysis software packages.

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