Function that allows for the tail-robust quantile normalization of the counts using the MBQN package.
normalize.counts(
DEprot.object,
balancing.function = "median",
NRI.RI.ratio.threshold = 0.5,
overwrite.normalization = FALSE
)A DEprot object, as generated by load.counts.
A string indicating the function to use to balance the quantile normalization. Default: "median".
Value indicating the NRI/RI (nearly rank invariant (NRI)/rank invariant (RI)) ratio threshold. Default: 0.5.
Logical value to indicate whether, in the case already available, the table of normalized counts should be overwritten. Default: FALSE.
A DEprot object. A boxplot showing the distribution of the protein intensity after normalization for each sample is added to the slot (boxplot.norm).