That's what I had done 20 years ago. So one reason that I returned to software after doing graduate work in neuroscience was the frustration of keeping cells alive while you poke at them. These titre plates full of thousands of different cells pose a problem orders of magnitude more challenging. Perhaps now it would be easier - engineer cells with the properties you need using CRISPR/Cas9.
That's what I had done 20 years ago. So one reason that I returned to software after doing graduate work in neuroscience was the frustration of keeping cells alive while you poke at them. These titre plates full of thousands of different cells pose a problem orders of magnitude more challenging. Perhaps now it would be easier - engineer cells with the properties you need using CRISPR/Cas9.