title: CellProfiler and KNIME: open source tools for high content screening.
abstract: High content screening (HCS) has established itself in the world of the pharmaceutical industry as an essential tool for drug discovery and drug development. HCS is currently starting to enter the academic world and might become a widely used technology. Given the diversity of problems tackled in academic research, HCS could experience some profound changes in the future, mainly with more imaging modalities and smart microscopes being developed. One of the limitations in the establishment of HCS in academia is flexibility and cost. Flexibility is important to be able to adapt the HCS setup to accommodate the multiple different assays typical of academia. Many cost factors cannot be avoided, but the costs of the software packages necessary to analyze large datasets can be reduced by using Open Source software. We present and discuss the Open Source software CellProfiler for image analysis and KNIME for data analysis and data mining that provide software solutions which increase flexibility and keep costs low.
authors: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Stöter
authors: Antje
authors: A
authors: Niederlein
authors: Rico
authors: R
authors: Barsacchi
authors: Felix
authors: F
authors: Meyenhofer
authors: Holger
authors: H
authors: Brandl
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Bickle
mesh_terms: D055808:Drug Discovery; D057166:High-Throughput Screening Assays / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software