Drug Discovery

New technologies in genomics and proteomics, combinatorial chemistry, high throughput screening, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics are helping speed up the process of drug discovery. Automation is playing an important key role in allowing researchers to meet the high throughput demands in today's research environment.

Learn more about drug discovery automation for these specific research areas below.

Bioanalysis

Bioanalysis (the quantitative determination of drugs and their metabolites in biological fluids) is used very early in the drug development process to provide support to drug discovery programs on the metabolic fate of chemicals in animals, as well as in living cells in an in vitro setting. The use of bioanalysis also continues throughout the preclinical and clinical drug development phases.

Many different sample preparation techniques are used in bioanalysis. Solid-phase extraction is just one technique and choices for its automation are detailed below.