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Z-score big! A game plan for image-based profiling

Juan Caicedo As described in our lab’s recent review article , there are so many great reasons to use microscopy images to create signatures of perturbations: identifying phenotypes associated with disease, identifying chemical mechanisms of action, and discovering gene functions, among others. Have...

Screening a million compounds for the price of a few thousand?

Anne Carpenter Biologists are coming up with more and more complex physiologically-relevant assay systems and scaling them up for screens. From co-cultured cells to C. elegans to 3D organoids and tumor spheroids, these assay systems can be challenging, expensive, lower-throughput, and/or rely on...