High-content screening: emerging hardware and software technologies

Methods Enzymol. 2006:414:468-83. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)14025-2.

Abstract

The field of high-content screening has flourished since 2000 with advancements in automated fluorescence microscopy technologies, fluorescent labeling techniques, and sophisticated image analysis software. Through the use of these technologies, researchers can now monitor cellular and molecular events in individual cells in vitro following drug treatment or RNAi and rapidly screen compound and siRNA libraries. This chapter discusses current and next-generation hardware and software features and capabilities.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Automation
  • Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques*
  • Computational Biology
  • Computers
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Kinetics
  • Lasers
  • Mass Screening
  • Microscopy, Confocal / methods*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods*
  • Software

Substances

  • Green Fluorescent Proteins