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Business objectives must be clearly communicated to select the proper projects. This is very much the area of the McKinseys and Anderson Consulting. Elsevier's market data might be a good help here.
Here the knowledge comes together, the professional knowledge of single researchers, the ability of the group, the know-how of the company. This requires access to past experiments. Access is only possible if the past work has been properly documented. The business of MDL is storing and finding information.
There is a lot of information hidden in public and proprietary databases. Using SCULPT and MDL databases it is possible to mine find good suggestions for pharmacophores. Visualization tools are more commonly used to discover new relationships.
On-line journals help to find quick answers to specific questions. Publications
that look more like databases will make it easier to share knowledge. ChemInform
and the Beilstein database are LitLink enabled. This means when you have found a
hit in a database you only have to click on the reference and, provided you have
the proper access rights, you will see the original literature. If you only have
access to a delivery service, LitLink can send your request automatically.
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