Research synergy and drug development: Bright stars in neighboring constellations.

ABSTRACT: Drug discovery and subsequent availability of a new breakthrough therapeutic or 'cure' is a compelling example of societal benefit from research advances. These advances are invariably collaborative, involving the contributions of many scientists to a discovery network in which theory and experiment are built upon. To document and understand such scientific advances, data mining of public and commercial data sources coupled with network analysis can be used as a digital methodology to assemble and analyze component events in the history of a therapeutic. This methodology is extensible beyond the history of therapeutics and its use more generally supports (i) efficiency in exploring the scientific history of a research advance (ii) documenting and understanding collaboration (iii) portfolio

SUBMITTER: Keserci S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5727381 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature