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However, our initial experiments in two cancer studies show that the current methods are unable to declare at 95% confidence level a number of protein markers that have been judged to be differential on the basis of the biology of the disease and the spectral count numbers. A shortcoming of these tests is that they do not take into account within- and between-sample variations together. Hence, our aim is to improve upon existing techniques by incorporating both the within- and between-sample variations.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Result: We propose to use the beta-binomial distribution to test the significance of differential protein abundances expressed in spectral counts in label-free mass spectrometry-based proteomics. The beta-binomial test naturally normalizes for total sample count. Experimental results show that the beta-binomial test performs favorably in comparison with other methods on several datasets in terms of both true detection rate and false positive rate. In addition, it can be applied for experiments with one or more replicates, and for multiple condition comparisons. Finally, we have implemented a software package for parameter estimation of two beta-binomial models and the associated statistical tests.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and implementation: A software package implemented in R is freely available for download at http:\/\/www.oncoproteomics.nl\/.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0t.pham@vumc.nl<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp677","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,10]],"date-time":"2009-12-10T01:46:35Z","timestamp":1260409595000},"page":"363-369","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":167,"title":["On the beta-binomial model for analysis of spectral count data in label-free tandem mass spectrometry-based proteomics"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Thang V.","family":"Pham","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"OncoProteomics Laboratory, Department Medical Oncology, VUmc-Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Sander R.","family":"Piersma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"OncoProteomics Laboratory, Department Medical Oncology, VUmc-Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Marc","family":"Warmoes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"OncoProteomics Laboratory, Department Medical Oncology, VUmc-Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Connie R.","family":"Jimenez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"OncoProteomics Laboratory, Department Medical Oncology, VUmc-Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511002389300_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"71","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jprot.2008.09.005","article-title":"Unravelling the nuclear matrix proteome","volume":"72","author":"Albrethsen","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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