Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 14, Issue 9, 2011

I was asked to serve as the guest editor to assemble a selection of manuscripts to fill a complete issue of “Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening” that would focus on Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and data management. This process started in the Spring of 2010 and several laboratories, experts and vendors were invited to participate with submissions. At first, it appeared that Read More

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, includes a laboratory devoted to High Content Analysis (HCA) of neurons. The goal of the laboratory is to uncover signaling pathways, genes, compounds, or drugs that can be used to promote nerve growth. HCA permits the quantification of neuronal morphology, including the lengths and numbers of axons. HCA of various libra Read More

The availability of high-throughput techniques combined with more exploratory and confirmatory studies in small-molecule science (e.g., probe- and drug-discovery) creates a significant need for structured approaches to data management. The probe- and drug-discovery scientific processes start and end with lower-throughput experiments, connected often by high-throughput cheminformatics, screening, and small-molecule Read More

High throughput screening (HTS) has emerged as an important technique for allowing researchers to rapidly profile very large numbers of chemicals against drug targets. As recent and future advances make HTS cheaper to perform on even larger scales, the amount of data that has to be processed, analyzed, and searched will only grow larger in size and harder for researchers to manually sift through. It is therefore an Read More

In recent years high throughput screening operations have become a critical application in functional and translational research. Although a seemingly unmanageable amount of data is generated by these high-throughput, largescale techniques, through careful planning, an effective Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can be developed and implemented in order to streamline all phases of a workflow. Read More

Every laboratory has a need to track and control the variables that drive the quality of the results. However, each laboratory is unique and what one organization deems to be a critical process to track and control will likely differ from other organizations. Furthermore, there is more than just the end product or result that needs to be tracked and controlled. All of the intermediate products and resources play a significant role i Read More

Mr. Hull is the vice president of sales for UNIConnect, a LIMS and process management software company based in Sandy, Utah. He received a degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah from the Marriott School of Management, (B.S. in Business Management, 1992). He worked for 12 years as a product and account manager for Computype, a bar code label automation company focused on laboratory applicatio Read More

The reaction of isocyanides with electron deficient alkynes has been first reported in 1969, about ten years after the first reports on the famous Ugi four component reaction. However it took about thirty years to realise that the zwitterionic intermediate originating from interaction of the two species could be trapped by a third component, thus giving the start to a novel class of isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions. Fro Read More

Metabolite identification study plays an important role in determining the sites of metabolic liability of new chemical entities (NCEs) in drug discovery for lead optimization. Here we compare the two predictive software, MetaSite and StarDrop, available for this purpose. They work very differently but are used to predict the site of oxidation by major human cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoforms. Neither software can predict n Read More

An efficient synthesis of 2-(dialkylamino)-4-phenyl)-1,3-thiazol-5-yl)(phenyl)methanone using acid chlorides, secondary amines, 2-bromoacethophenone and ammonium thiocyanate is described.