The first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the subject, Assay Development: Fundamentals and Practices covers the essentials and techniques involved in carrying out an assay project in either a biotechnology/drug discovery setting or a platform setting. After discussing the basics, it explains the treatment of assays for purified protein, cell-based assays, and high-throughput screening. It includes good practices and case studies. This is a premier resource for biotechnologists, analytical chemists, biochemists, medicinal chemists, toxicologists, and others, and an excellent text for professors preparing students to enter the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.