Berkeley Lights, Inc. announced that Novartis is implementing BLI's Beacon platform to help accelerate their antibody discovery workflow. Novartis was an early adopter of the BLI technology and the results from this early work has culminated in the adoption of the Beacon platform. The Beacon platform is capable of screening thousands of antibody producing cells in 48 hours. Cell characterizations are performed through a variety of serial or multiplex fluorescence assays to determine antigen-specificity for both soluble and membrane bound targets, relative binding affinity, and functional response. Individual cells with the desired characteristics are selected and exported for further manipulation. All of these functions are automated and are performed with minimal hands-on time by scientists. Both the time compression and automation of discovery workflows enable faster iteration and innovation to develop more valuable targets.