Proteomics technology is progressing at an incredible rate and has been widely used in proteomics for its high reliability and efficiency.
Sennsichip Bioinformatics Analysis Platform can analyses several kinds of data sets derived from Mass spectrometry-based shotgun protomics、Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI)、Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and Isobaric tag for relative absolute quantitation(ITRAQ) technology. The analysis workflow is listed below:
Step one--Differential Expression proteins selection
Differential Expression (DE) peptides could be identified using t-test or ANOVE. High level proteins can match much more peptides than low level proteins. So we can select differential proteins(P<0.01). DE proteins would be separated into two groups of up-regulated gene group and down-regulated gene group according to each protein’s expression level.

Step two—Gene Ontology analysis
Gene Orthology (GO) analysis tools were performed to classify the DE proteins. The significance between DE proteins and GO node were identified using T-test. Based on P value <=0.05. Every DE protein could be mapping into a significant GO node.

Step three—Pathway analysis
By searching KEGG and BioCarta database, each differential expression (DE) proteins would be mapped into certain biochemical pathway. Statistical analysis (such as Fisher exact test) was performed to identify the significance between DE proteins and pathways.

Step four--Transcription Factor Analysis
The DE proteins are retrieved in Transcription Factor (TF) database for finding out whether these genes have certain TF binding site. If it does, the result suggests there exists certain relationships between TFs and DE proteins.

Step five--Protein Regulation Pathway Analysis
This analysis builds up the protein-protein interaction network based on the literature co-citation analysis and transcription factor binding analysis. In the example below, the upper figure suggests the yellow color enlighted proteins should be transcription factor. In the lower graph, the yellow color enlighted proteins represent they are key knots of proteins interaction network.

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