Services Core/facility: Yale Center for Molecular Discovery

Assay design

About the service

If you have an idea for a screening project, YCMD can work with you to help identify and design an assay suitable for high-throughput screening. We support both target-based (screening based on a single molecular target) and phenotypic (screening based on functional biology) screening approaches.

Assay throughput

We typically miniaturize assays to 384-well plate format, but we can also accommodate 96-well plate-based assays.

Schematic of process from idea to assay

Assay types

  • Biochemical assays
  • Cell-based assays
  • Whole organism assays

Assay detection methods

HTS-amenable assays typically rely on changes in the absorbance, luminescence or fluorescence signals as common assay outputs. We have instrumentation to support a variety of assay detection methods , including platereaders , real-time kinetic screening (link is external) and high-throughput microscopy imaging.

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers