January 14, 2012
From the desk of Sylvia Ernst, Ph.D – Sr. Director Community Growth at CDD
Neglected disease research is one of our passions here at CDD - Malaria and TB in particular. Yesterday, I (Sylvia Ernst) came across this well written Wired Magazine Article that references back to a related recent Times of India Article on TDR (Totally Drug Resistant) TB spreading in India. Not good.
Can the world’s scientists come together work like an integrated Big Pharma to find new drugs? Can researchers around the world work together as if they were one (organization)?
Yes – they can! Check this out as an inspiring example: More Medicines for Tuberculosis
The web (some say “the cloud") enables scientists from disparate labs to collaborate in real time – as if they are one. 100% web-based services like CDD provide a platform where scientists can temporally join for projects and securely and privately work on drug discovery data. They can use sophisticated chemoinformatics tools, create joint SAR tables, match (or mask) molecules with collaboratively derived biodata from screening experiments, calculate IC50 data and dose response curves and collaborate across organizations, countries, borders, cultures and time zones – as if they are one!
This blog is authored by members of the CDD Vault community. CDD Vault is a hosted drug discovery informatics platform that securely manages both private and external biological and chemical data. It provides core functionality including chemical registration, structure activity relationship, chemical inventory, and electronic lab notebook capabilities!
CDD Vault: Drug Discovery Informatics your whole project team will embrace!