Cyan comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong
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Biomedical engineering. My thesis concerned the analysis of proteomics data by Bayesian methods.
Isn't that what they normally use to analyze proteomics data? <\naive>
Not always, or even usually. It seems to me that by and large, scientists invent ad hoc methods for their particular problems, and that applies in proteomics as well as other fields.