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Drug Discovery Informatics

Drug discovery informatics encompasses the computational and informatics-related activities involved in the drug discovery process.  It includes traditional IT efforts, as well as bioinformatics, cheminformatics and pharmacoinformatics activities.

Drug discovery informatics computational tools include:

• Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) - tools for managing the processes of laboratory experiments

• Bioinformatics analysis suite - tools for managing and performing analysis of biological data generated from molecular biology, genomics and functional genomics experiments

• Cheminformatics analysis suite - tools for managing and performing analysis of chemical data generated from chemical library design and synthesis and physico-chemical analysis of compounds

• Pharmacoinformatics analysis suite - tools for managing and performing analysis of pharmacology data generated from experiments such as in-vivo modeling, ADME and toxicity experiments

• Messaging systems - tools for disseminating information including email and SMS

• Research web portals - Web tools for providing centralized access to distributed information and communication tools via Web browsers

• Search engines - computational tools for finding information distributed over the intranet and internet

• Visualization software - tools for displaying data and analyses using graphical and 3-dimensional representations

• Statistical analysis systems - tools for performing statistical analysis on data

• Knowledge management systems - tools for representing data and analyses in a knowledge framework that provides data classification and inferencing methods

• Workflow systems - tools for capturing and formally describing analysis flows (or pipelines) performed on data that can be shared and validated

Additional info:

• Drug Discovery