Chemometrical analysis of proteolytic profiles during cheese ripening

This research note gives a presentation of chemometrical analysis of proteo lytic profiles obtained by electrophoresis and chromatography. An explanati on of how the proteolytic profiles can be transformed to a multivariate dat a set and some basic information about multivariate statistical techniques as principal component analysis and discriminant analysis are provided. Som e of the recent and most relevant research is presented to illustrate how t his technique can be used in research on proteolysis during cheese ripening . (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.