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European Biopharmaceutical Review
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The completed sequencing of the human genome was a tremendous achievement but only 30 months later, the long-term knock on to the drug discovery industry is becoming apparent. The prediction is that by 2005 about half of all new products will come out of biotech; presumably this is why there are over 4,000 biotech-focused companies (approximately 10 per cent of which are public) out there.
Throughout these organisations computer-based research studies are increasing, and notably they are developing independently of the laboratory. Well-integrated information systems (IS) may one day develop into the primary R&D environment, with analytical laboratories reduced to a secondary role of investigative analysis and manufacturing. Consequently, I find myself wondering: how long before computer-based research overhauls traditional biological research and development?
Before I cause too much anxiety in the wet laboratory-based scientific community, let me elucidate what I mean by computer-based research. My view is that it includes, but is not restricted to, what many of you may already be thinking, namely the growing field of bioinformatics.
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