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Knowledge Management
In major Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Companies, scientists work across multiple locations on similar or different projects and the key challenge as of today is to get them to work better and smarter together.
Edkal’s Knowledge Management solutions and Services help scientists working in different departments of the same company to engage in more productive collaboration.
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Solutions
Edkal Sci Desk - an online collaboration platform for sharing information
The key features and benefits of Edkal’s proprietary online collaboration platform ‘SciDesk’ are: |
- Users across multiple locations can submit and retrieve news/information on subject matters that interest them. This feature is very critical as earlier such information used to be communicated in the form of mass e-mails invariably clogging user mail boxes
- User Specific interfaces: Different users have different requirements and customized interfaces are developed for different scientists. A chemist’s page would not look similar to a biologists page
- The system can also be linked to centralized databases for experimental data, enabling users to monitor experiments in progress and receive notifications when new data is posted
- Ontology’s can be built and integrated incorporating concepts, describing targets, diseases, chemicals, phenotypes, technologies facilitating data mining /management across data sources from genes to clinical trials.
Edkal Project Tracker – a drug discovery project management tool. |
| Key Features and Benefits |
- Tracks and provides updated information on different stages of various drug discovery projects.
- Links various independent drug discovery groups to prevent groups from duplicating each others work
- Utilizing built-in visualization and data mining tools, management can use Project tracker to understand
- Therapeutic areas researchers are investigating across the company
- Employees working within each of those areas
- What stages in the process are the targets in those areas?
- Resources required in bringing a target from one stage to the next stage
- Areas where there are bottlenecks
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Services
Recent consolidations through M&A’s in the pharmaceutical and drug discovery space have definitely enhanced product portfolios and market capitalization of companies, but at the same time have resulted in information overload. IT departments of such companies are struggling to convert existing legacy data into a single format. Further incompatible target registering systems acquired from recently integrated companies complicates matters further, and increases the need for developing a single system to register their targets.
Edkal’s pool of trained computational experts and domain consultants helps such companies clean up legacy and incompatible data, and finally build a single system for collaboration. |
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