Screening and Profiling

To improve your hit-to-lead discovery process, BIOalternatives manages for you:

  • Screening projects, with a special reference to cellular/High Content Information approaches,
  • Drug profiling services to evidence the effects of your compounds in the largest or deepest ways,
  • Safety profiling for early prediction toxicity using cross-screenings in dedicated models.

 

High Content Screening

High Content Screening (HCS) is a powerful approach for a fast compound selection from your libraries (chemical entities, crude extracts, actives, etc) focusing on a specific biological activity or target in cell cultures (primary cells, cell lines, co-cultures). 

 

Samples

Your compounds:

  • Chemical entities,
  • Crude extracts,
  • Actives, etc. 

in individual tubes (powder or liquid) or in 96-well plates.

 

Services

Study design:

  • Solubility testing,
  • Preliminary cytotoxicity assays,
  • Master plate preparation,
  • Product plate preparation,
  • Product plate storage.

Final compound library screening in cellular assays.

 

Testing Capabilities

 
HCS-compatible assays validated by BIOalternatives:
 
  • Cell viability, proliferation, apoptosis,
  • Signal transduction,
  • Gene expression,
  • Cytokines, chemokines, growth factors release,
  • Cell differentiation,
  • Extracellular matrix synthesis or degradation,
  • Free radicals and stress,
  • Cell type-dependent specific assays.
Specifically designed assays focused on your target(s) of interest (feasibility/validation step included).
 
 

Information technology

 
Data and report:
In-house Ba®LIMS with fast, reliable and secured information management to generate Data Analysis & Standard Reporting.

Customized reports according to client's specifications also available.

 

Drug Profiling

BIOalternatives provides an array of in vitro assays for compound activity profiling in many fields such as:

  • Immuno-inflammation,
  • Tissue inflammation,
  • Tissue morphogenesis, differentiation,
  • Wound healing,
  • Central and peripheral neurobiology,
  • Stress and aging,
  • Pigmentation & other tissue specific pathways.


This full service includes the profiling of compound-induced gene expression, the analysis of activated signaling pathways and many cell-based functional assays. Such a profiling is also of special interest, e.g. for compound repositioning or IP coverage.

 
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