Patent ID: 7016787
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: G06K,G16C

Abstract:
1. A method for determining the response of cells to multiple levels of a stimulus, the method comprising: providing a 96-, 384-, or 1536-well plate, the wells of said plate containing a plurality of cells of different cell types, wherein at least some of said cells have been exposed to said stimulus; for each of the multiple levels of a stimulus, obtaining a plurality of feature values from said cells of different cell types, wherein said feature values are obtained from images of said cells, wherein at least some of said feature values characterize the phenotype of cells exposed to the particular level of the stimulus, to thereby produce a separate quantitative phenotype of the cells at each level of stimulus; and identifying a path through the separate quantitative phenotypes of cells exposed to the stimulus, wherein points on the path represent quantitative phenotypes of said cells at different specified levels of the stimulus.