This reference includes discussions of current screening techniques, the technologies involved, and high capacity instrumentation for the development of new drugs, chemical compounds, and the targeted delivery of pharmaceuticals. Twenty-one papers address topics like high throughput screening assays, screening platforms, homogenous assays, microbe-based screening systems, receptor screens, functional assay screens, enzyme screens, ion channel targets, drug discovery, bioinformatics, laboratory automation, and miniaturization. Contributors include researchers for companies in the United States, Canada, Germany, and France.