You are planning a 2D gel project and are looking for the best design? You are wondering which statistical methods lead to the answers you are looking for?

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answers these questions covering the following topics:

• Experimental design of an example project - given a scientific question
• Identification of outliers using Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• Finding spots of interest using non-parametric tests like Wilcoxon Test
  (incl. false discovery rate control (FDR))
• Searching for similarly behaving proteins with Pavlidis Template Matching (PTM)