GE Healthcare has released its new IN Cell Investigator software for high content analysis and screening
The IN Cell Investigator 1.3 offers a comprehensive solution for automated analysis of live and fixed cell assays.
It combines Spotfire DecisionSite visual analytics software with the award winning IN Cell Developer toolbox and validated IN Cell Analysis modules.
"This software release and the new environmental control module for the IN Cell Analyzer 1000 are part of our continued efforts to deliver more value to the high content analysis community", said Ger Brophy, general manager of GE Healthcare's Advanced Systems business.
"By enabling the analysis of moving cells, IN Cell Investigator helps scientists get more relevant information from living cells for better decision making".
This software adds new, powerful tools for cell tracking and sub-population analysis to enable more discoveries in high content analysis.
It utilises multi-processor computing to speed up overall analysis and the cell-tracking feature allows scientists to measure changes in cellular movements in response to treatment.
The subpopulation analysis tools enable classification of cells in a wide variety of applications, like apoptosis or cell cycle analysis.
Classification and cell tracking can be combined to monitor phenotype changes in individual cells over time, which can be used in RNAi screens or calcium imaging.
"The ready-to-go algorithms for IN Cell [Analyzer] are by far the easiest to use, and the most intuitive that I have tried" said Anthony Davies, PhD, from Institute of Molecular Medicine at the St James Hospital in Dublin.
"This has been very important to us, in a multi-user facility, to get projects up and running quickly and to maintain productivity, especially with our relatively high turnover".
The software was unveiled at the 12th Annual World Congress of Drug Discovery and Development of Innovative Therapeutics.
