The present application belongs to the field of
biotechnology, and specifically relates to a method for high-
throughput screening of
nucleic acid drug target genes, which comprises the following steps: treating cells with
nucleic acid drug candidates or negative controls, and collecting measurement values for a plurality of
cell characteristic parameters related to the treatment purpose of the
nucleic acid drug; calculating the fold change of the characteristic parameter measurement values of the cells in each candidate hole relative to the
negative control measurement values and normalizing them; for all measurement values, calculating the squared
Mahalanobis distance of the plurality of
cell characteristic parameters relative to the average value using the normalized values; screening out the candidates with squared
Mahalanobis distance greater than a cutoff value, and
unsupervised clustering the cells according to the plurality of
cell characteristic parameters to divide the candidates into at least one cluster; obtaining the corresponding silenced genes of the candidates in each cluster, and performing
gene ontology enrichment analysis on the genes in the cluster to obtain the biological processes associated with each cluster, and finally obtaining nucleic acid
drug target genes for different biological processes.