How Can Better Collaboration Tools Lead to Better Drug Discovery?
Recently, UCSD hosted a workshop titled Beyond the PDF (view all videos).
Nick Encina of Wingu presented his company's new scientific collaboration platform Elements. For anyone in the business of creating or using drug discovery informatics tools, Elements offers some points to consider:
- Software as a service model
- Web browser as software delivery platform
- Integrated data pipelining (workflow) system
- Capture of anecdotal information (e.g., email) commonly trapped in data silos
- Application programming interface (API) for customization and third-party extensions
- Flexible experimental templates
- Built-in data versioning
- Data management from design of experiment to publication