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Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research
Sean Ekins
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Description for Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research
Hardcover. Covering a neglected but important topic of management and information technology collaborations in drug discovery and development, this book discusses the state-of-the-art collaborative and computing techniques for the pharmaceutical industry. Editor(s): Ekins, Sean; Hupcey, Maggie A. Z.; Williams, Antony J. Series: Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBGR1; MM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 908.
Methods, Processes, and Tools for Collaboration
"The time has come to fundamentally rethink how we handle the building of knowledge in biomedical sciences today. This book describes how the computational sciences have transformed into being a key knowledge broker, able to integrate and operate across divergent data types."Bryn Williams-Jones, Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer
The pharmaceutical industry utilizes an extended network of partner organizations in order to discover and develop new drugs, however there is currently little guidance for managing information and resources across collaborations.
Featuring contributions from the leading experts in a range of industries, Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical ... Read moreResearch provides information that will help organizations make critical decisions about managing partnerships, including:
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Serving as a user manual for collaborations
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Tackling real problems from both human collaborative and data and informatics perspectives
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Providing case histories of biomedical collaborations and technology-specific chapters that balance technological depth with accessibility for the non-specialist reader
A must-read for anyone working in the pharmaceuticals industry or academia, this book marks a major step towards widespread collaboration facilitated by computational technologies.
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Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Series
Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Place of Publication
New York, United States
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About Sean Ekins
SEAN EKINS, MSc, PhD, DSc, is the Principal at Collaborations in Chemistry, and Collaborations Director at Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He has published more than 170 papers and book chapters on computational and in vitro drug discovery approaches and has previously ... Read moreedited or co-edited three books for Wiley. MAGGIE A. Z. HUPCEY, PhD, is a chemist working within the Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice of PA Consulting Group in Princeton, New Jersey. She has worked on collaborative projects for the design and development of new products and processes in the medical device, drug delivery, and drug discovery fields, including presubmission and post-launch regulatory compliance activities. ANTONY J. WILLIAMS, PhD, FRSC, is currently Vice President, Strategic Development, at the Royal Society of Chemistry and holds an adjunct position at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has written chapters for many books and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on NMR, predictive ADME methods, Internet-based tools, crowdsourcing, and database curation. He is an active blogger and participant in the Internet chemistry network. Show Less
Reviews for Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research
"The book is of interest to researchers developing IT systems in the pharmaceutical industry, and for those participating in drug discovery collaborations." (Book News, 1 October 2011) "What unveiled itself as I turned the pages was ... a truthful, meaningful accounting of an evolving social science, perhaps a hope that the pure thrill of crowdsourcing may accelerate the process ... Read moreof discovery while preserving a free market economy.... The book contains... [contributions from a] multi-national task force if you will of some of the world's finest minds in life and physical science and ‘cloud-native' knowledge-sharing." (Untangled Health, 11 August 2011) Show Less
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