Patent ID: 8658372

Claim:
A biochemical screening method comprising: A) providing a plurality of capture species independently selected from the group consisting of antimicrobial peptides, antibiotics, and combinations thereof; wherein the capture species are bound to one or more substrates; B) exposing the substrates to a sample containing a known biological target; C) allowing the biological target to bind to at least one of the capture species; D) detecting which capture species have bound biological targets to generate a known binding pattern for the known biological target; E) repeating A), B), C), and D) one or more times using samples containing different known biological targets to generate a database of binding patterns; F) repeating A), B), C), and D) using a sample suspected of containing an unknown biological target to generate an unknown binding pattern; and G) comparing, by performing a pattern recognition algorithm, the unknown binding pattern to the database of binding patterns.