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The CPCCG Screening Core can screen 96, 384 or 1536 well formats using either biochemical or cell-based assays, and can process over 300,000 wells per day. Total throughput capacity will climb to over 2 million compounds per day following the opening of Burnham’s east coast campus in Lake Nona, Florida.

We collaborate with investigators to develop robust assays suitable for high throughput screening (HTS) formats.

Areas of Expertise

CPCCG has the ability to develop and run almost any biochemical or cell-based assay types.

We have significant expertise in studying cell death using a variety of biochemical and cell-based assays, with particular emphasis on kinases, phosphatases, proteases and protein-protein interactions. CPCCG is also experienced with phenotypic assays for primary and stem cells.

Assay formats include:
  • absorbance
  • ELISAs
  • fluorescence intensity
  • fluorescence polarization
  • FRET
  • luminescence
  • time resolved fluorescence
  • TR-FRET
  • BRET
  • AlphaScreen
Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics Capabilities

Assay Formats Screening Capabilities Biologicial Expertise
Absorbance Biochemical Assay Screening Cell Death (Apoptosis, Necrosis etc.)
Luminescence Cell-Based Assay Screening Cell Differentiation (phenotypic assays for stem cells using fluorescent reporters)
Fluorescence Intensity High-Content Cell-Based Assay Screening Cell Proliferation
Fluorescence Polarization High Throughput Microscopy/Cell Imaging Cell Motility and Invasion
Time Resolved Fluorescence Cell Image Analysis Cell Morphology
FRET Image Algorithm Development Cytotoxicity Assays
TR-FRET Bacterial, Baculovirus and Mammalian Recombinant Protein Expression Systems Enzyme Assays
Heterogeneous Assay Formats (ex: ELISA) Lentivirus Technology Kinase Assays
NMR Cell Reporter Assays Phosphatase Assays
Transmitted Light Cell Line Generation Protease Assays
  NMR-Based Screening ER Stress/Chemical Chaperone Assays
  Virtual Library Design/Screening Protein Translocation Assays
  In Silico Profiling Protein-protein Interaction Assays
    Cardiac myocyte Assays
    Pancreatic beta-cell Assays
    Neuroregeneration Assays
    Promoter/Reporter Assays
    Actins, Microtubulus and Microfilament Structures
    Cancer
    Diabetes
    Inflammation and Infectious Diseases
    Nucleic Acid-based Targets
    Functional Genomics/cDNA/siRNA Profiling
    PK/ADME/Toxicity Profiling

Guidelines for assay development can be found at the NIH National Chemical Genomics Center. Please review their Assay Guidance Manual for detailed information.