Bookedited by Jürgen Moll, Riccardo Colombo.
The path to oncology drug target validation : an industry perspective -- Identification of aptamers as specific binders and modulators of cell-surface receptor activity -- The design and structure-functional properties of DNA-based immunomodulatory sequences -- SiRNA design principles and off-target effects -- Western blot evaluation of siRNA delivery by ph-responsive peptides -- High-throughput RNAi screening for the identification of novel targets -- Integration of RNAi and small molecule screens to identify targets for drug development -- CellProfiler and KNIME : Open source tools for high content screening -- PARP inhibition as a prototype for synthetic lethal screens -- Structure-based target druggability assessment -- Validating pharmacological disruption of protein-protein interactions by acceptor photobleaching FRET imaging -- Systematic analysis of complex signal transduction pathways using protein fragment complementation assays -- Reverse phase protein microarrays and their utility in drug development -- A cell culture system that mimics chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells microenvironment for drug screening and characterization -- Two-dimensional vs. Three-dimensional in vitro tumor migration and invasion assays -- Tumor spheroid-based migration assays for evaluation of therapeutic agents -- The neurosphere assay applied to neural stem cells and cancer stem cells -- Genetically engineered animal models for in vivo target identification and validation in oncology -- Target validation in mice by constitutive and conditional RNAi -- In vivo target validation by inducible RNAi in human xenograft mouse models -- Bright-field in situ hybridization methods to discover gene amplifications and rearrangements in clinical samples -- Combined microRNA in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical detection of protein markers.