METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF ELECTROPHORETIC PROTEIN PATTERNS

摘要

A method of obtaining clinical information about a cancer patient by analysing p53 in a sample taken from said patient. It comprises the steps of: a) providing an electrophoresis gel irfiage containing spatially resolved data indicative of the concentration of one or more p53 isoforms in said sample; b) providing a set of previously acquired correlation data that represents the correlation between a plurality of pixels in the type of image in step a) and the clinical information of interest; and c) using the correlation data to obtain said clinical information from the image. The invention also enables such correlation data to be used to jbfedict a value for a clinical parameter from a gel image.