Screening What is the Goal

It is very important to understand the goal in an HTS screen because the screening goal has a very large impact on what types of compounds should be screened, on how many compounds should be screened, and how much the screening compounds might be expected to cost. 

Chemical biology/chemical genetics is the use of a chemical compound as a tool or probe to learn something about a biology pathway [20]. The chemical compound is used in the same sense as a mouse knockout experiment or an SiRNA 

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