assay

Dash, whose team includes former software engineers from Moderna, automates common laboratory tests such as Elisa, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, which is used for tasks such as evaluating a drug’s safety and efficacy.

We set up an inhibition assay in test tubes.

They developed an assay that can be used to screen drugs to see if they restore protein mobility by comparing each drug's effect on a simple biomarker with surface cysteines to one without.

The UF team plans to explore the tool's potential further, by expanding the assay to include additional invasive species and applications for monitoring ecological restoration outcomes.

"Our computational approaches further allowed us to identify and analyze these rare events that are not visible with standard sequencing assays."