New Pistoia Alliance Working Groups

Several new projects are getting underway.

• NMR Automatic Structure Verification: This working group will provide a service that vendors can use to verify the ability of their software to automatically verify chemical structures from NMR spectra. First steps are to identify a project data curator and an appropriate platform for sharing data. The project is anticipated to run through September 2012. (John Hollerton, GSK, project lead)
• Assets Management and Assets Sharing: This project aims to identify and standardize  appropriate business processes and methods for managing samples and sharing associated data assets with external groups. The project is anticipated to run through November 2012. First steps are to identify and prioritize standards associated with asset management.
• Secondary Pharmacology Discussion Group: The aim of this working group is to reduce later-stage compound attrition by sharing information precompetitively. The group will produce a list of targets and technologies used in early secondary pharmacology and case studies highlighting the value of these approaches. The project is anticipated to run through December 2012.

Several exploratory working groups are also being formed to explore the feasibility of several other project ideas, including

• Developing a "disease explorer" for navigating various layers of disease information
• Identifying, signposting, and certifying standards relevant to Pistoia members
• Defining standards for exchanging biomarkers
• Determining standards for improving collaboration around the management of screening data and exchanging this type of data with CROs
• Creating a canonical model for large molecules

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