Configuration method, configuration apparatus, and configuration program

A configuration apparatus for configuring a culture medium panel constituted by a plurality of culture media to optimize a cell culture result, the configuration apparatus comprising a processor configured to perform:

• a region setting process to set a region of a culture medium composition space;
• a characteristic listing process to list a plurality of cell characteristics;
• a prediction process to make a prediction of a culture result of a target cell for a given culture medium composition, based on a cell characteristic of the target cell;
• a search listing process to search for and list, for respective cell characteristics included in the plurality of cell characteristics, culture medium compositions for which cell culture results have local maximum values;
• and
• a configuration process to configure the culture medium panel from culture medium composition candidates corresponding to the local maximum values, wherein
• in the search listing process, the processor is configured to:
• extract a culture medium composition candidate from the region of the culture medium composition space,
• predict, for the extracted culture medium composition candidate, a culture result of a cell having a cell characteristic included in the plurality of cell characteristics in the prediction process, and
• search for and determine, from the predicted culture result, culture medium composition candidates that provide the local maximum values.