Target identification

Discover advanced screening technologies to accelerate novel target identification

Submit a proposal and help drive innovative science


Gain access to high quality diversity screening sets for use in hit identification

Sharing our screening sets to support the generation of quality lead series for novel drug targets is a key to advancing the discovery of potential new medicines. We have made available over 250,000 compounds and welcome proposals from academic and other researchers anywhere in the world.

For a description of the types of screening sets available, please see here. 

 

Programme details

Submission status: Active

No submission deadline, please apply any time.

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We are looking to collaborate with academic researchers and institutional research centres working on novel, innovative targets aligned to our R&D focus areas as well as those exploring cutting-edge biology.

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By collaborating with us, you will gain access to high-quality diversity screening sets for use in hit identification. You can opt to screen an entire set or select a subset, depending on the throughput of your assay technology. Currently, we are providing access to the screening collections listed below. We do not provide funding to support this work, but we will provide a letter of support for you to include in your grant funding application.

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This programme is open to basic and applied researchers working in academic settings across all geographies.

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Application Process

Find the right screening set for you

Comprising 250,000 compounds that represent the diversity of the entire AstraZeneca screening library, this set has been effectively used for high throughput screening of disease targets to identify novel chemical interactions. We will provide the compounds in assay-ready plates of your preference, and will be on hand to provide follow-up compounds for hit validation, as well as data handling support.

Consisting of 14,000 compounds annotated against 1,600 human targets, this set of compounds is ideal for supporting phenotypic screening and target identification. The library has also been annotated against the secondary effects of compounds which are not commercially available. We provide the compounds in assay-ready plates, and offer “target enhancement” bioinformatic support upon requests.

Consisting of 17,000 fragments with an average of 15 heavy atoms and an average cLogP of 1.3, the fragment library is useful for identifying small molecule, fragment binders that can be starting points for further medchem development.

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