The Pistoia Alliance, a nonprofit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, launched the next phase of its Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) Process Ontology project on Thursday. The project, which aims to develop a pharmaceutical CMC process ontology based on the ISA-88/95 framework, is supported by Eli Lilly, Amgen, Merck &…
Finding signals in the storm: Automation in biomarker discovery
Biomarkers are strategic assets for biopharma companies, significantly improving the success rate of clinical trials1. Yet, discovering them often feels like navigating through a blizzard of unstructured information, searching for the one true signal that can guide the way. While laboratory automation has eased benchwork, the real storm rages in the data, obscuring access to…
Accelerating R&D with FAIR data
In 2016, the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship were published, laying out guideposts for scholarly data producers to make their data discoverable and usable in the future. The FAIR principles seek to ensure that data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. At the time of their publication, they articulated and centralized many points…