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High-Throughput 96-Well Cocrystal Screening Workflow for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
17 Sept 2018Increasingly, poorly soluble drug candidates are entering development, which has made identifying and selecting stable solid forms of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) with enhanced in vivo absorption more difficult. While pharmaceutical salts are the most common choice for solid forms, cocrystals are also known to improve “druggability” characteristics such as solubility, dissolution, bioavailability and hydration stability. In addition, cocrystals have advantages in terms of their structure diversity and the potential for intellectual property protection.
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High-Throughput ScreeningHigh-throughput screening (HTS) is an automated drug discovery technique for identification of active compounds against a compound library. Use HTS readers and integrated assay preparation / analysis workstations to screen your compounds. Identify active compounds against various HTS libraries, including membranes, proteins and peptides and HTS cell lines. Find the best high-throughput screening products in our peer-reviewed product directory: compare products, check customer reviews and receive pricing direct from manufacturers.Active PharmaceuticalsThe Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) of a drug is the component that causes the direct effect of the product. The remaining inactive components are known as excipients.High ThroughputHigh throughput experiments allow the simultaneous processing of several samples. This parallelization reduces the cost per experiment and increases reproducibility and output volume of data.PharmaceuticalsPharmaceuticals are medicinal drugs used in healthcare to diagnose, prevent, cure and treat illnesses. Pharmaceuticals that are excreted after use appear in wastewater and can have detrimental effects on the environment.ScreeningUsing robotics, data processing and control software, liquid handling devices and sensitive detectors, screening allows a researcher to quickly conduct millions of chemical, genetic or pharmacological tests.