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Yeasty does it

How BiocipherX’s yeast-based phenotypic screening platform could speed discovery

April 10, 2018 7:58 PM UTC

BiocipherX Inc. could accelerate drug discovery with a platform that weds yeast-based phenotypic screening with AI to characterize the mechanism of action of novel small molecules.

While high throughput genetic screens are widely used to rapidly quantify the effect of a genetic mutation on a given phenotype, their use is limited to mutations that affect cell growth...