“…The specificity, affinity, and onchip functionality have been assured using stringent phagedisplay screening and selection protocols using different sample formats ranging from pure proteins, mixtures of pure proteins to crude samples (Soderlind et al, 2000). In addition, the specificity of selected antibodies has been validated using pure proteins, mixtures of pure proteins, as well as wellcharacterized, standardized serum samples i) with known levels of the targeted analyte(s), ii) spiked with known level of specific protein(s), and/or iii) depleted of the targeted protein(s), and/or orthogonal methods such as mass spectrometry (affinity pull-down experiments), ELISA, Meso Scale Discovery assay and cytometric bead assay, as well as spiking and blocking experiments ( Supplementary Table 1) (Carlsson et al, 2011b;Dexlin-Mellby et al, 2010;Gustavsson et al, 2011;Ingvarsson et al, 2007Ingvarsson et al, , 2008Kristensson et al, 2012;Pauly et al, 2013;Wingren et al, 2007). Despite stringent selection and validation protocols, one limitation is the lack of information on fine specificity concerning proteoforms, translational modifications and potential complex formations.…”