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Comparison of pre-processing methods for multiplex bead-based immunoassays.

Tanja K Rausch¹, Arne Schillert¹, Andreas Ziegler^2,3,4

¹Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Universität zu Lübeck, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562, Lübeck, Germany.

|August 13, 2016

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This study identifies optimal data pre-processing methods for Luminex® xMAP® assays. Four transformation and normalization combinations effectively reduce technical variability in high-throughput protein expression studies.

Keywords:

Autoantibody Bead-based Immunoassay Luminex Multiplex Omics Pre-processing Protein

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Area of Science:

Biotechnology
Proteomics
Assay Development

Background:

High-throughput protein expression studies utilize bead-based immunoassays like Luminex® xMAP® technology.
Technical variability in these assays can introduce bias and reduce statistical power.
Standardized pre-processing recommendations for Luminex® xMAP® data are currently lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate and recommend optimal data pre-processing strategies for Luminex® xMAP® assays.
To address the absence of established guidelines for Luminex® data pre-processing.
To improve the reliability and reproducibility of high-throughput protein expression studies.

Main Methods:

Compared 37 distinct data pre-processing pipelines, including various transformation and normalization methods.
Assessed 42 samples across 384 analytes using a multiplex immunoassay on the Luminex® platform.
Evaluated pre-processing performance using 6 criteria, including visual assessment of plots by 15 blinded readers.

Main Results:

Identified four specific combinations of transformation and normalization methods that performed well.
Demonstrated the effectiveness of these selected methods in mitigating technical variability.
Confirmed the suitability of these approaches for bead-based protein immunoassays.

Conclusions:

Weighted Box-Cox transformation followed by quantile or robust spline normalization (rsn) is recommended.
Asinh transformation followed by loess normalization is a suitable pre-processing strategy.
Box-Cox transformation followed by rsn also proved effective for Luminex® xMAP® data pre-processing.