Systematic approaches to dissect biological processes in stem cells by image-based screening

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 768-778

  Erdmann, Gerrit ^a   Volz, Christian ^a   Boutros, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

High content; Imaging; RNA interference; Screening; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINES; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELLULAR PATHWAY; CELLULAR PROCESS; GENERAL ASPECTS; HIGH-CONTENT; HIGH-CONTENT SCREENING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED SCREENINGS; MODEL ORGANISMS; PLURIPOTENCY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SMALL MOLECULES;

CELL CULTURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RNA; SCREENING; STEM CELLS;

DIAGNOSIS;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84861788084     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201200117     Document Type: Review

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