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IDBS launches E-WorkBook Cloud to manage scientific and R&D data
IDBS has launched the E-WorkBook Cloud, an enterprise, Cloud-based platform designed specifically to meet the future challenges of scientific and R&D data management.
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How to be a research scientist: A conversation with Novo Nordisk’s Rahul Kapur
23 November 2016 | By Rahul Kapur, Head of Medical Affairs, Novo Nordisk UK and Ireland
We caught up with Novo Nordisk’s Rahul Kapur, to find out what it’s like to be at the forefront of diabetes research and what it takes to get there...
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Scientists use a “big data” approach to precision medicine
7 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have compared genetic mutations in tumours to those in cancer cell lines and then tested the cell lines' responses to therapeutic compounds...
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Biomarkers that could give better cancer survival estimates
9 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A new method, developed by UCLA scientists, could eventually lead to a way to improve accuracy of how well a patient will respond to treatment...
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Genomic Data Commons to accelerate cancer treatment research
6 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a unified data system that promotes sharing of genomic and clinical data between researchers, launched today...
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The case for data analytics in proof of concept studies
26 February 2016 | By Rodrigo Barnes, Chief Technology Officer at Aridhia
Here, Rodrigo Barnes, Chief Technology Officer at Aridhia, discusses how data analytics can add value to proof of concept trials...
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canSAR: a portal to Big Data for drug discovery
9 February 2016 | By Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker discuss canSAR: the first public domain example of Big Data for drug discovery...
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Drug Target Review’s top 10 stories from 2015
28 January 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer, Drug Target Review
2015 was an exciting year for the drug discovery industry. Here we look at a selection of stories that particularly stood out for us…
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CanSAR cancer drug discovery database goes 3D
4 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The updated canSAR database will allow scientists working in the UK and across the globe to design new cancer treatments more effectively...
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IMI launches Calls to advance drug development in Ebola, Alzheimer’s and AMD
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The IMI has launched two Calls for proposals that will advance drug development in Ebola, childhood cancers, neurological disorders, and eye disease...
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Big data unlocks new targets to treat influenza
10 December 2015 | By Victoria White
A team of scientists have tapped into publically available large-scale 'Omics' databases to identify new targets to treat influenza...
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MD Anderson’s expands its Moon Shots Programme
30 October 2015 | By Victoria White
MD Anderson's Moon Shots Programme is an unprecedented effort and novel organisational model designed to more rapidly convert scientific discoveries into life-saving advances...
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DEXSTR presents data management tool Inquiro at Pharmaceutical IT Congress
23 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Inquiro gathers all unstructured data – from R&D to preclinical data – and allows researchers to organise and interconnect such data, facilitating large-scale collaborations among geographically distant research teams...
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Genomics soon to be the biggest Big Data beast
13 July 2015 | By Victoria White
A group of mathematics and computing experts have concluded that genomics is about to become the biggest Big Data beast, overtaking YouTube...
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Where do you start when developing a new medicine?
27 March 2014 | By GlaxoSmithKline
Novel scientific collaboration to use genomics and big data to drive drug discovery...