Statistically Appraising Process Quality of Affinity-Isolation Experiments
- Clemson University
- Montana State University
- ORNL
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Quality affinity isolation experiments are necessary to identify valid protein-protein interactions. Biological error, processing error, and random variability can reduce the quality of an experiment, and thus hinder the identification of protein interaction pairs. Appraising a nity isolation assay quality is essential to inferring protein associations. An important step of the assay is the mass spectrometric identification of proteins. To evaluate this step, a known mixture of proteins is processed through a mass spectrometer as a quality control mixture. If the mass spectrometer yields unexpected results, the process is currently qualitatively evaluated, tuned, and reset. Statistical quality control (SQC) procedures, including the use of cumulative sum, the individual measurement, and moving range charts are implemented to analyze the stability of the mass spectrometric analysis. The SQC measures presented here can assist in establishing preliminary control limits to identify an out-of-control process and investigate assignable causes for shifts in the process mean in real-time.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 948048
- Journal Information:
- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol. 53, Issue 5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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