Vertical Applications -- Pharmaceutical Example
Discovery of Drugs
- management of chemical structure and biological info (e.g. DNA database, capturing relationship of cells to ôconditionsö); identifying chemical and DNA sequences
- use simulation and combinatorics to crunch through huge numbers of candidate chemical compounds
Clinical Trials and Productization of Drugs
- manufacturing of the drug
- testing on subjects, measuring the responses, side-effects
- involves hospitals, research institutes
- data recording, analysis, distribution
- report generation (e.g. to FDA)