Top Ten Reasons for Biotechs to Acquire CDD Vault
- Scientists may come and go, but data live on
- Encourage project scientists to follow healthy data management practices
- Enhance research workflows
- Improve acquisition and analysis of project data
- Serve all members of the project team
- Promote research collaborations
- Enhance structure-activity analyses
- Protect New Leads and other IP value
- Scientists can focus on science, not maintaining datasystems
- A complete, cloud-based solution reduces both capital outlays and manpower costs
1. Scientists may come and go, but data live on
- Scientific advances may mandate review or reanalysis of data from previous projects
- Updates are difficult from scattered and poorly documented project data
- Project scientists know their data, but more context is needed for archived datastores
2. Encourage project scientists to follow healthy data management practices
- CDDVault project templates create complete and accurate project datasets
- Templates and calculations are easily customized for project scientists' needs
- Data analyses and sharing – generation of routine reports are more efficiently managed
3. Enhance research workflows
- All members of the project team can enter, analyze, report their data – in the same database!
- Project managers can more easily track progress, identify bottlenecks, pivot to new leads
- Hand-offs from one group to another are more easily tracked and followed up
4. Improve acquisition and analysis of project data
- Registration and submission of samples, sample tracking, assay registration, data analysis, result summary, posting, report creation – are all performed in one comprehensive system
- Results may be analyzed with included tools or CDDVision, or by linking to other analysis programs
5. Serve all members of the project team
- CDDVault handles data from medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, experimental biology, molecular biology, toxicology, computational chemistry, and other project team disciplines
- Chemists can look at raw plus calculated assay results, study a lead compound class's bioprofile
- Biologists can see ancillary compound data – chemical type, stability, solubility, therapeutic window
6. Promote research collaborations
- External and internal collaborators can see and manipulate appropriate data
- Data from multiple external collaborations can easily be manipulated, partitioned, or integrated
7. Enhance structure-activity analyses
- Chemists can compute/correlate structures/properties/activities and propose hypotheses
- Biologists can search for similar compounds and properties in public databases
- Structure-activity, structure-property, and sequence-property correlations may be explored
8. Protect New Leads and other IP value
- Missing or poorly documented data can sink a patent application or licensing deal
- A proper database is required to ensure datasets are auditable, and data changes are tracked
9. Scientists can focus on science, not maintaining datasystems
- Scientist-created and -maintained datastores may cause problems and take time away from research
- Bespoke database solutions may require significant IT support to meet scientists' changing needs
10. A complete, cloud-based solution reduces both capital outlays and manpower costs
- In-house solutions require hardware and software purchases, ongoing programmer commitments, and periodic upgrades
- Cloud-based CDDVault handles system maintenance, security, backup, and necessary upgrades as a fixed, agreed-on cost
From the desk of Peter Gund, CDD Advocate