Category Archives: Columns
Web as platform: Chemvendor grows up and becomes Chemcaster
Rich Apodaca is one of my favorite bloggers out there. His blog covers topics of interest at a number of levels, from cheminformatics to Ruby on Rails to we services. He also happens to be the found of Metamolecular which develops software and services that, in the words of the site, brings chemistry [...]
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Industry watching: Patent pools and joint ventures
In an article in the Motley Fool, Brian Orelli writes about how Pharma is Reworking the R&D model. He writes that unlike other industries competition in the biopharma industry may not be a good thing. Given the uncertainties, long time scales, cost, and ultimate role of drug makers, I do not disagree. [...]
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Biopharma innovation: Open drug discovery? Not yet, but maybe some day
Interesting post from Joerg, who is not so sure about open innovation in drug design. He makes some good points, with the observation
In other words, if you do not need the money, do whatever you like openly. If you need the money, e.g. for clinical trials, then please make sure staying within the [...]
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Web as platform: Linking data. RDF stores and augmentation