Enabling discovery at the
world’s leading research labs.

Plex partners with academic laboratories to bring AI-driven target deconvolution, multi-omics analysis, and the Focal Graph to peer-reviewed research — accelerating the path from phenotypic screen to mechanistic insight.

4Peer-reviewed publications
BillionsData points available
ManyOmics modalities

Trusted by leading academic institutions

Affiliations sourced from PubMed publications featuring Plex Research. Plex works alongside academic research teams, providing the computational infrastructure to turn high-throughput experimental data into actionable biological hypotheses.

How Plex enables academic research

AI-Driven Target Deconvolution

When phenotypic screens identify hit compounds, Plex predicts the molecular targets driving the observed phenotype — bridging the gap between what a compound does and why.

Multi-Omics Integration

Academic labs can query billions of data points spanning transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, and chemical biology — all through a single interface.

Transparent, Traceable Evidence

Every Plex result links back to the experimental data that supports it. No black boxes — just data-driven hypotheses with full provenance.

Biomarker & Target Discovery

The Focal Graph identifies novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers from diverse multi-omics datasets, enabling discoveries that would be impossible to find manually.

Peer-reviewed evidence of impact

Publications sourced from PubMed for the search term “plex research.” Plex’s technology has contributed to peer-reviewed work in leading journals and conferences, demonstrating real-world scientific impact in drug discovery and life sciences research.

Nature methods2025PMC12439680

Morphological map of under- and overexpression of genes in human cells

Chandrasekaran SN, Alix E, Arevalo J, et al

Broad InstituteRevvityArdigenEvotecStanford UniversitySpring ScienceKsilinkPlex Research Inc.

Cell Painting images offer valuable insights into a cell's state and enable many biological applications, but publicly available arrayed datasets only include hundreds of genes perturbed. The JUMP Cell Painting Consortium perturbed roughly 75% of the protein-coding genome in human U-2 OS cells,…

bioRxiv2025PMC12724150

Phenotypic Screening Coupled with AI-Driven Target Deconvolution Identifies α-Terthienyl as a Dual DPP-IV/HSD17β13 Modulator with Efficacy in a Mouse Model of MASLD

Hoegeman KM, Wotring JW, Fursmidt R, Gaetz J, Khalil EM, Selinger DW, Kovalenko I, Schultz TL, McCarty SM, O’Meara MJ, Clasby MC, Sexton JZ

University of MichiganPlex Research Inc.
bioRxiv2024

A Framework for Autonomous AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Selinger DW, Wall TR, Stylianou E, Khalil EM, Gaetz J, Levy O

Harvard Medical SchoolPlex Research Inc.
bioRxiv2020

Indomethacin has a potent antiviral activity against SARS CoV-2 in vitro and canine coronavirus in vivo

Xu T, Gao X, Wu Z, Selinger DW, Zhou Z

Plex Research Inc.

Background The outbreak of SARS CoV-2 has caused ever-increasing attention and public panic all over the world. Currently, there is no specific treatment against the SARS CoV-2. Therefore, identifying effective antiviral agents to combat the disease is urgently needed. Previous studies found that…

Source: PubMed — search term “plex research”

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