Optimal serial dilutions designs for drug discovery experiments.

Dose-response studies are an essential part of the drug discovery process. They are typically carried out on a large number of chemical compounds using serial dilution experimental designs. This paper proposes a method of selecting the key parameters of these designs (maximum dose, dilution factor, number of concentrations and number of replicated observations for each concentration) depending on the stage of the drug discovery process where the study takes place.

Optimal experimental design in chromatography.

Many experimental programs in chromatography involve the estimation of a second-order response surface. The paper focuses on the use of the methods of optimal experimental design to find efficient response surface designs. We give tables of the properties of designs with two, three and four factors.