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Smarter screening: faster results

 

Benefit from BioFocus DPI’s extensive target class and disease area expertise and gain access to an unparalleled source of screening libraries and natural product extracts.

 

 

 

Capabilities

Our services include custom assay development, assay formatting for HTS, and compound screening for hit finding, hit-to-lead and lead optimization:

 

Cell line generation

Assay development

PrimePath: screening in human primary cells

Medium and high-throughput screening

Automated electrophysiology screening

Compound profiling

High-content screening

Multi-parameter screening

 

 

Track record

More than 350 assays developed

Over 200 hit finding campaigns performed

Greater than 40% of HTS using cellular assay systems

Over 30 hit-to-lead and lead optimization projects

More than 80 clients from pharma, biotech and not-for-profit organizations

 


Target class experience

Over 350 assays developed for different target classes, with particular expertise in biochemical and cellular assays for ion channels, kinases and GPCRs:

 


Disease area experience

We have developed disease-relevant assays in human primary cells in 14 different disease areas including:

 

Inflammatory diseases

Bone and joint diseases

Respiratory diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases

Obesity and diabetes

 

 


Technologies

Our information-rich and high-throughput screening technologies include:

 

Electrophysiology (patch clamp, IonWorks™ Quattro®, PatchXpress®)

Fluorescence-based screens using membrane potential sensitive dyes and Ca2+ release assays

High-content screening and multi-parametric detection

Microfluidic “lab on a chip” platform for kinase profiling

High-throughput plate imaging

Radioisotopic assays

 


World-class screening libraries

• Over 32,000 chemogenomically-derived focused (SoftFocus) compounds including kinase, GPCR and ion channel-focused libraries

• Over 700,000 diverse synthetic compounds

• More than 700 purified natural compounds

• More than 140,000 pre-purified natural product fractions from microbial sources

• Focused virtual collections of compounds created using BioFocus DPI computational expertise

 

 


Contact us to learn more about how our assay development and screening expertise can contribute to the success of your drug discovery programs.


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