“…Large numbers of candidate biomarkers for malignant (Etzioni et al, 2003), autoimmune (Prince, 2005), infectious (Zhang et al, 2002), neurological (Carrette et al, 2003), metabolic (Roelofsen et al, 2004;Schwegler et al, 2005) and cardiovascular (Kittleson and Hare, 2005) diseases have been generated using various high-throughput platforms Ping et al, 2005), but the production of high affinity antibodies necessary for biomarker validation remains slow and costly. New methods such as high-throughput screening by flow sorting of recombinant antibodies (scFv) displayed by yeast (Feldhaus et al, 2003) can accelerate the identification of antigen-specific scFv.…”