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In the previous blog posting I listed some of the podcasts that make it easier to stay on top of the changes that drive the pharmaceutical industry. There are a number of conferences and societies that provide webcasts of their sessions, in addition to podcast content. These are really useful when you can’t make it

The pharmaceutical R&D environment has always been collaborative in nature — never moreso today. Key to the success of those collaborations is the ability to share information about drug R&D programs with a wide variety of potential partners and investors. Traditionally pharmaceutical companies rely on expensive databases to identify potential partners. These databases usually do a

In a previous post we showed how you can use BioGroovy to download a data file from a webservice.  In this post, we’ll show you how to parse the file that you’ve downloaded. After handling all of the imports (shown in the first block of code), the real work starts with the EntrezGeneSlurper.  We create a

At a recent Informatics Lunch meeting, surrounded by a host of dedicated Python users I confessed to being somewhat ignorant of the business drivers behind using Python in a bioinformatics setting. Although, I have used Python on occasion, it was usually to solve a customer’s problem, and not my first choice when reaching into the toolbox.  My

The topic at a recent Bioinformatics lunch discussion was the NIH’s Big Data To Knowledge (BD2K) program.  The BD2K’s Mission Statement (below) gives you some ideas for where the program is heading… BD2K is a trans-NIH initiative established to enable biomedical research as a digital research enterprise, to facilitate discovery and support new knowledge, and