Technological advances in high-throughput screening

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 597-603

  Fernandes, Prabhavathi B ^a  

^a Small Molecule Therapeutics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; 6-CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; CALMODULIN; DNA; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RNA;

CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; ELECTRONICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

CALMODULIN; DNA; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MINIATURIZATION; RNA; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032175112     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(98)80089-6     Document Type: Article

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