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In her second article on cloud


computing, Sophia Ktori looks at how both vendors and customers of informatics systems are having to change their IT culture


O 8 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD


ne of the most notable changes in the culture of pharmaceutical research and development is the move towards collaboration and


outsourcing as the business model. Tis has been driven, at least in part, by a shiſt from the development of traditional small- molecule drugs, to large molecule biologics, biomarkers and personalised medicine. ‘Biologics discovery and development will


generally require collaboration with CROs, small biotechs or academia that have required IP, or are specialised in different segments of the biologics workflow, perhaps next gen sequencing or biomarker discovery,’ according


to Anthony Uzzo, president and cofounder of Core Informatics. ‘Tis means that collaboration and outsourcing will become an inevitable part of biologics and precision medicine initiatives.’ On the informatics front, he continued:


‘Cloud solutions can effectively and efficiently capture and secure data that has been generated by CROs and collaborators who are outside of the client’s infrastructure. Tink about all the money that large pharmaceutical companies spend on outsourcing and on collaborative research. If the partners are not all using the same platforms for data collection and sharing, a huge amount of


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