A drug screening system for analyzing neuropharmacology of a chemical without any prior knowledge by using whole brain activity mapping and machine learning based computational approaches.
Drug screening is a method for identifying and verifying pharmaceutical effect of a chemical compound on living species. In general, it is necessary to perform multiple stages of the drug screen process from predicting the effect of an unknown drug to verifying the pharmacology of such drug before allowing the drug to be used as medication for human beings.
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