Screening for Biologically Active Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

High throughput screening (HTS) has come a long way since the first time in the late 1980s that it was implemented in a truly automated fashion. It has become a mainstay as a starting point for the discovery of new drugs, with a particular utility in discovering new chemistry for new biology. Recent technological advances in assay methodologies have been outstanding, in part facilitating access to HTS by increasingly large numbers of academic researchers. This has imparted to HTS an extra level of exploratory research, with a particular focus on chemical biology and tool compound discovery and development. In addition to target-based screening, phenotypic screening is gaining an increasing and in some areas dominating foothold. However, HTS is not an instant solution to drug discovery, because there is no such thing. Assay artefacts continue to be the bane of the hit discovery researcher. Some targets are shown to be undruggable. This special issue will focus on all these aspects of state-of-the-art high throughput screening.

Prof. Dr. Jonathan B. Baell
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biology is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.