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CIO October 15, 2001 Stephanie Overby |
Drug Companies on speed The marriage of IT and medical research may be just what traditional pharmaceutical companies need to survive in an increasingly competitive field. Learn how IT is bringing the pharmaceutical industry into the information age... |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 James Golden |
The Business of Bioinformatics The industry has reached an interesting crossroads. As an academic branch of learning, bioinformatics remains mostly what it always was, a cross-disciplinary endeavor between computer science and molecular biology. But bioinformatics as a money-making proposition has different criteria for success. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Target Elimination Industry and FDA scientists turn to databases, applications software, and laboratory chips to move the safest, most effective molecules into clinical trials. |
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Malorye Branca |
Deep Sequence Diving Like sailors of old, genomic data miners dream of discovering riches and fame. Given the recent improvements in analytics -- and a little more time -- they just might succeed. |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Michael Goldman |
A Virtual Pharmacopeia Computational modeling of disease pathways, organs --- even patients --- could transform drug discovery. Does salvation exist in silico? |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Zachary Zimmerman |
Learning the Language of Systems Biology Geneticist par excellence David Botstein talks about his philosophy, science, his mission for integrative science, and what he deems a success for systems biology. |
Bio-IT World September 2006 Mike May |
Working Out the Flow Better management of workflow issues in biotech and pharma could change fundamental aspects of these sciences in the near future. |
Bio-IT World November 2006 John Russell |
Pathway Pioneers Innovative uses for pathway tools and exciting results from early users are sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain -- albeit following a few harsh winters. And the usually risk-averse pharmaceutical industry has led in adopting pathway tools. |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Bioinformatics moves into the mainstream An explosion of data is being tamed with new systems |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic. |
Bio-IT World November 2006 Kevin Davies |
Jubilant Curries Favor with BioPharma The explosion of drug discovery and development operations in India is epitomized by the success of several companies. Quietly building on a decade of experience in computational and bio-IT fields, JBL is rapidly pushing into a suite of drug discovery and development activities. |
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 John Dodge |
Talent Fuels Drug Pipeline in Swiss Time The functional genomics group has emerged as a critical link in the drug discovery chain at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. While it employs a multidisciplinary approach to drug discovery, the four-year-old group's goals could not be simpler: Find novel drug targets. |
Bio-IT World May 19, 2004 John Russell |
Informatics Black Boxes ... Not! Vertex's chief technical officer, discusses informatics' bad reputation, buying vs. building, open-source tools, and ROI on IT. |
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 Kevin Davies |
The NextBio Thing in Bioinformatics NextBio, which this fall officially introduced its platform after a year of beta testing by a handful of select organizations, aims to provide high-throughput information to researchers without them having to learn anything. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Bio-IT World April 2007 Vicki Glaser |
Software Solutions for Medicinal Chemistry Driven by advances in chemical synthesis, instrumentation, and high-throughput and high-content screening technology, medicinal chemistry's transition from an art to a science is benefiting from a wealth of new software products, spanning both bio- and cheminformatics. |
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Hillel Alpert |
Bio-IT Shines Bright in Israel Companies such as Quark and Pharmos are still flourishing as other industries decline in this country torn by conflict. |
Bio-IT World September 2006 John A. Wass |
Integrating Knowledge The results of new mathematical routines have the potential to save pharmaceuticals millions of dollars in drug development. And yet the flow of successful drugs is dwindling. The problem goes beyond bureaucracy and lies in the complexity of the problem. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Salvatore Salamone |
Made in Manhattan A talk with the new head of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. |
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 Malorye Branca |
The Path to Personalized Medicine The tactics have changed, sometimes dramatically, but hints of the promise of pharmacogenomics are finally starting to trickle in from studies of asthma, cancer, and drug response. |
Chemistry World |
Fishing for Chemical Answers to Biological Questions James K. Chen talks about chemical biology, his love for the outdoors and fly fishing. |
Bio-IT World July 14, 2004 Malorye A. Branca |
The Pathways Promise By using the right tools, even a modest genomic data set can generate a good view into a particular biological pathway. Now, a range of new technologies is arising from academia as well as the commercial sector to meet this need. |
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Donna Mendrick |
Microarrays That Make Drugs Safe Using DNA chips to discover potential toxicity in new drug compounds -- a key application of toxicogenomics -- can predict adverse effects before they occur, enabling safer clinical trials. |
Bio-IT World September 2006 Kevin Davies |
Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping. |
Bio-IT World March 10, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Technology Overload Inundated with new IT tools and mountains of data, the pharmaceutical industry struggles to pull it all together. |
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 John Russell |
Systems Biology - Now Leaving on Track 1 Entelos, a leader in predictive biosimulation, partners with pharmaceutical and biotech organizations worldwide to develop effective new treatments for disease. Michael French, chief business officer at Entelos, explains what powers the systems biology engine. |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Malorye Branca |
The Proteomics Odyssey Efforts to map the constellation of protein interactions in humans gather momentum as companies vie to provide tools to capitalize on the potential of proteomics. But can proteomics prevail where some feel genomics has failed? |
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 John Russell |
Novartis' Answer to Harry Potter Imagine a magic wand able to instantly materialize novel, safe, and effective drugs. No such device exists, of course, but Novartis has a distant cousin of sorts: the UltraLink is an immensely powerful text-mining tool and knowledge management platform. |
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 |
Millennium's PARIS Illuminates Pathways To address high-throughput-data challenges, Millennium Pharmaceuticals built the PAthway Resource and Information System, or PARIS -- a unique platform for combining knowledge from heterogeneous data sources in the construction of a pathway knowledgebase. |
Bio-IT World May 9, 2003 Vivien Marx |
The Sharper Image See it, capture it, mine it, find it. The budding field of image informatics is empowering biomedical research. |
Industrial Physicist Apr/May 2003 Jennifer Oullette |
Switching from physics to biology Physicists in transition help shape biological theory. |
Bio-IT World November 2005 |
Bridges and Boundaries in Drug Discovery Research Good communication, blurring cultural boundaries, and strong project governance may be as, if not more, important as sweeping technology solutions when it comes to converging discovery and IT and expediting drug development. |
Fast Company January 2002 George Anders |
Roche's New Scientific Method How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents... |
Bio-IT World November 2006 Robert M. Frederickson |
Managing Data on the Go GeneGo has created a suite of software and database products that aim to facilitate analysis of the biology behind different types of high-throughput experimentation and understand the effects of small molecule drug compounds in human tissues. |
Bio-IT World October 14, 2004 Zachary Zimmerman |
Follow the Pathway to Increased ROI Although this software has been commercially available for only a year, Ingenuity claims nine of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies as customers, including Pfizer, Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, and Aventis. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2006 Ron Feemster |
Gene Logic: Rescue Squad One or two late-stage clinical failures can land promising drug candidates on the shelf. Forever? Maybe not. Gene Logic tests Big Pharma's dead drugs for hundreds of different targets. |
Bio-IT World March 2006 |
Bio-IT World Bio-IT 50 The 50 companies profiled here have driven and continue to drive the future of biomedical research and drug discovery: Accelrys... Affymetrix.. Apple... Becton Dickinson... BlueArc... 454 Life Sciences... etc. |
Bio-IT World February 2006 John Russell |
Marvelous Models of Biological Systems Here are highlights from a roundtable discussion with researchers representing academia and pharmaceuticals, as well as executives from modeling technology providers on whether or not Pharma is ready to bet on computational modeling of biological systems. |
Bio-IT World July 2005 Kevin Davies |
Medicine Gets Personal Touch More genomics-based drugs are moving into development with others, such as new cancer drugs showcasing on the clinical pharmacogenics scene as outlined in the Advances in Genomic Medicine program of a recent world conference. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Beth Schachter |
Informatics Moves to the Head of the Class The race is on to increase the quantity and quality of bio-IT training programs as government and academia bet the need will be great. Will the job market back up that bet? |
Bio-IT World May 7, 2002 Malorye Branca |
In Silico Survivors Facing desperate times, bioinformatics companies revamp, refocus, or perish. |
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Digging Into Digital Quarries Industrial-strength software is helping discover unexpected connections in the scientific literature. |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm. |
Wired August 2004 Oliver Morton |
A Machine With a Mind of Its Own Ross King wanted a research assistant who would work 24/7 without sleep or food. So he built one. King's robot can look at the results of a biology experiment, draw a conclusion about what the results might mean, and then set off to test that conclusion. |
Bio-IT World February 2007 Mike May |
No Limits: The New Look of LIMS As vendors and scientists work towards standardized data formats and improving the tracking of research and results worldwide, laboratory information management systems can pull increasingly more complex sources of information into managing knowledge. |
Bio-IT World July 14, 2004 Davies & Russell |
The Sweet Hereafter Novartis' stunning new research home in a former candy factory is but one ingredient in a bold new recipe for success that embraces leadership, culture, science, and technology. |
Bio-IT World September 2006 John Russell |
Informatics Cornucopia Predictive Informatics, the hopeful title of a session at last month's Drug Discovery Technology & Development World Congress, remains an enticing but mostly elusive goal. Asked what systems biology would look in five years and what will constitute success, panelists offered the following. |
Bio-IT World September 2005 Salvatore Salamone |
Fujitsu Modeling Improves In Silico ADME/Tox Predictions The company's BioSciences Group is now offering its expertise in this area as a form of consulting service to help companies develop enhanced in silico ADME/Tox predictive results. |
Bio-IT World Jul/Aug 2006 Deb Janssen |
Managing the Microarray Data Mountain Genomic studies often involve thousands of samples and require hundreds of thousands of assays per sample. Microarray manufacturers are scurrying to satisfy researcher demands for increased array density, sample number, and content flexibility. |