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Improved Statistical Methods for Hit Selection in High-Throughput Screening

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research, Kirkland, Quebec, Canadachristine_brideau{at}merck.com

Bert Gunter

Bill Pikounis

Andy Liaw

Biometrics Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ

High-throughput screening (HTS) plays a central role in modern drug discovery, allowing the rapid screening of large compound collections against a variety of putative drug targets. HTS is an industrial-scale process, relying on sophisticated auto mation, control, and state-of-the art detection technologies to organize, test, and measure hundreds of thousands to millions of compounds in nano-to microliter volumes. Despite this high technology, hit selection for HTS is still typically done using simple data analysis and basic statistical methods. The authors discuss in this article some shortcomings of these methods and present alternatives based on modern methods of statistical data analysis. Most important, they describe and show numerous real examples from the biologist-friendly Stat Server^® HTS application (SHS), a custom-developed software tool built on the commercially available S-PLUS^® and StatServer^® statistical analysis and server software. This system remotely processes HTS data using powerful and sophisticated statistical methodology but insulates users from the technical details by outputting results in a variety of readily interpretable graphs and tables.

Key Words: high-throughput screening • hits • statistics • screening

Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Vol. 8, No. 6, 634-647 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1087057103258285


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