Meeting report: Trends and challenges in high content analysis

摘要

Image acquisition using robotic fluorescent microscopy and automated image analysis is now generally referred to as high content screening (HCS), a powerful tool to carry out cell biology on a large scale both in basic academic research and in early drug discovery. The recent Conference, Workshop & Exhibition "High Content Analysis, Spain" brought together scientists from the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and academic sectors interested in the trends, developments and recent advances in HCS technology. "High Content Analysis, Spain" was held in Madrid on the 26-27 March 2007, jointly hosted by the Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas) and Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Center (CNIC - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares). The meeting focused on a variety of HCS applications including compound and RNAi library screening, drug profiling and toxicity evaluation.