High Content Screening - Drug Discovery and Development

Thermo Fisher Scientific now offers a series of software and hardware modules to enhance the functionality of its HCS/HCA platform. These include the introduction of the Thermo Scientific HCSExplorer informatics software, new functionality of its BioApplications line of image analysis software, and expanded capability of its Thermo Scientific HCS Analysis Platform.

The Thermo Scientific HCSExplorer utilizes web-based technology to enable enterprise-wide data access and analysis. This offering provides analytical, data visualization, and image comparison tools that can be used with any data storebr

BioApplications are image analysis algorithms that allow scientists to make complex measurements and are validated for a wide variety of biologies. The new Version 3 of Thermo Scientific BioApplications software has been enhanced to measure larger image sizes and more objects within any given field.

The new version 6.1 of Thermo Scientific HCS Analysis Platform provides improved image visualization due to the addition of several new image display features. The advanced Graphical User Interface reduces training time, and data from a range of third party microscopes or HCS readers can now be analyzed.
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Published in Drug Discovery & Development magazine: Vol. 10, No. 9, September, 2007, p.26.