Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening

As the use of high-throughput screening expands, the need for detailed reference materials becomes ever more pressing. This book fills an important part of this need by providing an easily accessible reference volume for cell-based phenotypic screening.

As the use of high-throughput screening expands and creates more interest in the academic community, the need for detailed reference materials becomes ever more pressing. Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening: Methods and Protocols aims to fill an important part of this need by providing an easily accessible reference volume for cell-based phenotypic screening. Leading researchers in the field contribute state-of-the-art methods with actionable protocols covering four major areas of study: model biological systems, screening modalities and assay systems, detection technologies, and approaches to data analysis. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology ™ series format, each chapter includes a brief introduction to the subject, lists of necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step laboratory protocols, and a Notes section detailing tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Cutting-edge and easy-to-use, Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening: Methods and Protocols presents an overview of relevant approaches, enabling the direct application of existing methods to new discoveries while also inspiring researchers to approach their screening projects in a conceptually modular fashion, enhancing the power to discover through new combinations of existing approaches.

Provides an easily accessible reference volume for cell-based phenotypic screening written by leading researchers in the field Details the process of turning a biological observation into a high-throughput screen Covers a wide range of cell-based assay formats and systems Presents a modular approach to experimental design, covering model biological systems, screening modalities, detection technologies, and approaches to data analysis Comprehensive guide to developing, running, and analyzing cell-based assays in high-throughput screening Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction: Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening.- High-Throughput Screening of Model Bacteria.- Cell-Based Assays to Probe the ERK MAP Kinase Pathway in Endothelial Cells.- Large-Scale Small-Molecule Screen Using Zebrafish Embryos.- Whole-Animal High-Throughput Screens: The C. elegans Model.- Whole-Organism Screening: Plants.- Fluorescence-Based Assays.- Reporter Gene Assays.- Screening for Chemical Inhibitors of Heterologous Proteins Expressed in Yeast Using a Simple Growth-Restoration Assay.- Assay for Isolation of Inhibitors of Her2-Kinase Expression.- High-Content Screening: Flow Cytometry Analysis.- High-Throughput Real-Time PCR for Detection of Gene-Expression Levels.- Interpretation of Uniform-Well Readouts.- Extracting Rich Information from Images.