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Automatic Identification of Subcellular Phenotypes on Human Cell Arrays

¹ Intelligent Bioinformatics Systems, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany ² Department of Cell Biology/Biophysics, EMBL Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany ³ Gene Expression and Cell Biology/Biophysics Programmes, EMBL Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany ⁴ MetaSystems GmbH, 68804 Altlussheim, Germany

Light microscopic analysis of cell morphology provides a high-content readout of cell function and protein localization. Cell arrays and microwell transfection assays on cultured cells have made cell phenotype analysis accessible to high-throughput experiments. Both the localization of each protein in the proteome and the effect of RNAi knock-down of individual genes on cell morphology can be assayed by manual inspection of microscopic images. However, the use of morphological readouts for functional genomics requires fast and automatic identification of complex cellular phenotypes. Here, we present a fully automated platform for high-throughput cell phenotype screening combining human live cell arrays, screening microscopy, and machine-learning-based classification methods. Efficiency of this platform is demonstrated by classification of eleven subcellular patterns marked by GFP-tagged proteins. Our classification method can be adapted to virtually any microscopic assay based on cell morphology, opening a wide range of applications including large-scale RNAi screening in human cells.

⁵ These two authors contributed equally to this work.

⁶ Corresponding author.
E-MAIL r.eils{at}dkfz.de; FAX 49-6221-423620.

[Supplemental material is available online at www.genome.org. The following individuals kindly provided reagents, samples, or unpublished information as indicated in the paper: S. Wiemann and A. Poustka.]

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