A Collection of Useful Nuisance Compounds (CONS) for Interrogation of Bioassay Integrity.

Hu H, Yi X, Xue L, Baell JB

JACS Au 4 (12) 4883-4891 [2024-12-23; online 2024-11-25]

High-throughput screening (HTS) is a crucial technique for identifying potential hits to fuel drug discovery pipelines. However, this process naturally concentrates nuisance compounds that are not optimizable yet signal positively in a convincing manner. To be able to understand what types of nuisance compounds a particular assay is sensitive to, would be of great utility in being able to prioritize progressable over nonprogressable screening hits. In this study, we present a carefully compiled set of over 100 nuisance compounds that are known to interfere with assay readouts in either phenotypic or target-based screenings. Readily accessible in an assay-ready screening plate, we believe this nuisance compound set will be of great interest to the research community, helping to establish high-quality HTS assays and identify promising, optimizable hits.

PubMed 39735938

DOI 10.1021/jacsau.4c00851

Crossref 10.1021/jacsau.4c00851

pmc: PMC11672131


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