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| I. Natural Products as a Discovery Resource |
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1. Chemical Diversity and Genetic Equity: Synthetic and Naturally Derived Compounds |
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II. Finding lead molecules: diversity is the key |
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III. Commercial compound purchases |
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V. International relationships |
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VI. Indigenous knowledge: rich resource or curiosity? |
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Appendix 1. Test Substance Sources |
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Appendix 2. Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) |
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Appendix 3. Clinton Administration's Proposed Interpretation - 1994 |
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Appendix 4. Internet Access to Natural Product Information |
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2. Microcollection of Plants for Biochemical Profiling |
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II. Botanical and chemical diversity |
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IV. Voucher sampling, storage and retrieval |
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V. Microcollection techniques |
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VI. Data management and sample preparation |
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VII. Extraction processes |
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VIII. Removal of interfering substances |
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IX. Test sample preparations in microplate format |
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X. Follow-up and recollection |
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XI. Chemotaxonomy and phytochemical tracking |
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3. Enzymes and Microbes as a Source of Chemical Diversity |
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II. Production of chemicals by microbial fermentation |
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III. Production of chemicals by immobilized microorganisms |
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IV. Foreign protein synthesis by microorganisms |
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V. Steroid transformations by microorganisms |
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VI. Effects of substrate composition and environment |
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4. The Marine Environment as a Discovery Resource |
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III. Access to marine natural products libraries |
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V. Requirements of an effective acquisition program |
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VII. Scale-up development alternatives |
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| II. Compound Sourcing: Chemically Generated Screening Libraries |
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II. Solid phase organic chemistry |
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III. Mixture synthesis and screening |
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IV. Parallel synthesis of individual compounds |
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6. Rapidly Expanding Molecular Diversity: Libraries from Libraries |
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III. Deconvolution methods for nonsupport-bound combinatorial libraries |
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IV. Soluble combinatorial libraries |
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7. Synthesis of Encoded Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries via ECLiPS |
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I. Combinatorial techniques |
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III. Encoded small molecule combinatorial libraries |
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8. Parallel Organic Synthesis Using Parke-Davis' Diversomer(R) Method |
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II. Organic synthesis on solid-support |
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III. The diversomer apparatus |
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V. Examples of diversomer syntheses |
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VI. Information management |
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VII. Summary and conclusions |
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9. Rapid Discovery and Optimization of Biologically Active Small Molecules Using Automated Synthesis Methods |
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III. Ontogen compound libraries |
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10. CMT: A Solution Phase Combinatorial Chemistry Approach: Synthesis and Yield Prediction of Phenazines |
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II. CMT: Concept and philosophy |
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11. Design of a Diverse Screening Library |
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III. Diversity objectives |
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V. Example of designed diversity |
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12. Automating Combinatorial Chemistry: Challenges and Pitfalls |
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13. Combi-chem High Throughput Screening for Leads Optimization |
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II. Sample screening results |
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| III. Assay Technologies and Detection Methods |
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I. Using more efficient assay methods to reduce compromises in screening |
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II. The diversity of HTS methods |
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15. Bioassay Design and Implementation |
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III. Types and characteristics of screening assays |
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16. Scintillation Proximity Assays |
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II. Automatability of SPA screening assays |
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III. Assay throughput using SPA |
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IV. Number of "hits" in SPA HTS assays |
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V. Assay interference/quench correction |
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VI. Signal to noise ratios utilized in SPA HTS assays |
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VII. Total number of data points generated in SPA HTS assays |
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VIII. Types of compound libraries tested with SPA |
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IX. SPA and waste disposal |
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X. Types of scintillation counter used |
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17. FlashPlate(TM) Technology |
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I. Principles and characteristics of FlashPlate scintillation counting |
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II. Receptor binding assays on FlashPlate |
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III. Live cell assays on FlashPlate |
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IV. Enzyme assays on FlashPlate |
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V. Radioimmunoassays on FlashPlate |
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18. Assays For Small Molecule Agonists and Antagonists of the Neurotrophin Receptors |
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II. Receptor binding assay |
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III. Receptor activation assay |
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19. A Homogeneous, Time-Resolved Fluorescence Method for Drug Discovery |
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II. The theory of HTRF(TM) |
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III. Applications of HTRF |
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IV. Instrumentation and robotics |
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20. Time-Resolved Fluorometry: Advantages and Potentials |
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III. Lanthanides as probes |
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IV. Time-resolved fluorometry in biomedical research |
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21. Adaptation of Time-Resolved Fluorescence to Homogeneous Screening Formats |
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II. Materials and methods |
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III. Results and discussion |
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IV. Summary of advantages |
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22. Fluorescence Polarization |
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II. The potential of fluorescence polarization |
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III. Theory of fluorescence polarization |
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V. High Throughput Screening and FP |
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VI. Assay characteristics |
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VIII. Challenges in High Throughput Screening by FP |
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23. Reporter Gene Assay Applications |
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II. Reporter genes and their products |
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III. Detection techniques and their improvement |
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24. Development of a Gene Expression-Based Screen Using Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction |
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II. "Target" versus "marker" approaches |
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III. Development of a gene expression-based screen (GEBS) |
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25. High-Performance Microphysiometry in Drug Discovery |
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II. Summary of microphysiometry |
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IV. High-performance microphysiometry |
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V. Future extensions of microphysiometry |
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26. Bio-analytical Applications of BIAcore, an Optical Biosensor |
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| IV. Automation and Robotics |
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I. A realistic view of automation and robotics |
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II. The future of automation and robotics |
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28. Management and Service Issues of a Centralized Robotic HTS Core |
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II. Senior management perceptions and expectations |
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III. Balancing new technology development and data production |
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IV. Coping with the monotony of screening |
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V. Working with scientist customers |
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29. Flexible Use of People and Machines |
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I. Automation in the bioscience laboratory |
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II. Approaches to automation in HTS |
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IV. Implementing an automation project |
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V. Future prospects for automation in HTS |
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30. Bar-Code Technology and a Centralized Database: Key Components in a Radioligand Binding Program |
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31. Factors for the Successful Integration of Assays, Equipment, Robotics, and Software |
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II. Defining the screening objectives |
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III. Development of the screening infrastructure |
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VI. Further development of the HTS facility |
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32. Accelerating the Discovery Process with Automation and Robotics: A Sure Bet or a Risky Venture? |
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III. Critical success factors |
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33. Perspectives on Scheduling |
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| V. Data Retrieval, Handling and Integration |
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II. Database Architectures |
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III. Client-server systems |
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IV. Performance and design considerations |
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V. Chemical structure databases |
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VI. Programming considerations |
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VII. Final summary points |
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37. Data Management and Tracking for Natural Product Programs |
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III. Implementing an effective system |
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39. Planning and Implementing an HTS Program |
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40. Establishing an HTS Program in a Start-Up Biotechnology Company |
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II. Planning the screening program |
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III. Samples for screening |
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IV. Equipping the HTS laboratory |
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V. Developing high throughout screens |
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