Let's analyse a protein assay....

Hopefully, you've already downloaded R and R-Studio. R-Studio is not essential.

Here is a script to do a protein assay:

# Protein Concentrations

prot <- c(0.000, 0.016, 0.031, 0.063, 0.125, 0.250, 0.500, 1.000, 0.000, 0.016, 0.031, 0.063, 0.125, 0.250, 0.500, 1.000) 

# Absorbance from my protein assay

abs <- c(0.329, 0.352, 0.349, 0.379, 0.417, 0.491, 0.668, 0.956, 0.327, 0.341, 0.355, 0.383, 0.417, 0.446, 0.655, 0.905)

#Plot the data simply

plot(abs~prot)

#Calculate the line using the linear model function

line <- lm(abs~prot)

#Draw the line

abline(line)

#Improve the graph:

plot(abs~prot, 

     xlab = "[Protein] (microg/ml)",

     ylab = "Absorbance (570nm)",

     main = "Protein Assay 20th April 2015")

abline(line)

r2 <- round(summary(line)$r.squared, 3)

mylabel = bquote(italic(R)^2 == .(format(r2, digits = 3)))

text(x = 0.2, y = 0.9, labels = mylabel)

#Equation of a line y = mx + c

#In our case abs = slope * prot + intercept

# ukn.prot = (abs - intercept)/slope

int <- summary(line)$coefficients[1]

slope <- summary(line)$coefficients[2]

mylabel = bquote(y == .(format(slope, digits = 3))*x + .(format(int, digits = 3)))

text(x = 0.2, y = 0.8, labels = mylabel)

#now calculate some unknown protein concs from absorbances

#put the unknowns into a vector

abs.unknowns <- c(0.554, 0.568, 0.705)

#rearrange the equation of the line to ukn.prot = (abs - intercept)/slope

prot.unknowns <- (abs.unknowns - int)/slope

#put the answers on the graph

text(x = 0.8, y = (0.6), "Abs")

text(x = 0.92, y = (0.6), "Prot")

for (i in 1:length(abs.unknowns)){

  text(x = 0.8, y = (0.6 - i/20), abs.unknowns[i])

  text(x = 0.92, y = (0.6 - i/20), round(prot.unknowns[i], 3))

}

# END OF SCRIPT

This can be copy and pasted into the script window of R-Studio. 

Then each line can be run one by one by pressing the Run button:

This will generate the following output: