Cecconi Daniela
Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Lab, Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy.
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1384:69-78. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3255-9_4.
Analysis of two-dimensional gel images is a crucial step for the determination of changes in the protein expression, but at present, it still represents one of the bottlenecks in 2-DE studies. Over the years, different commercial and academic software packages have been developed for the analysis of 2-DE images. Each of these shows different advantageous characteristics in terms of quality of analysis. In this chapter, the characteristics of the different commercial software packages are compared in order to evaluate their main features and performances.