title: Information needs and the role of text mining in drug development.
abstract: Drug development generates information needs from groups throughout a company. Knowing where to look for high-quality information is essential for minimizing costs and remaining competitive. Using 1131 research requests that came to our library between 2001 and 2007, we show that drugs, diseases, and genes/proteins are the most frequently searched subjects, and journal articles, patents, and competitive intelligence literature are the most frequently consulted textual resources.
authors.affiliation: Library and Literature Informatics, Biogen Idec, Inc. Cambridge MA, USA.
authors.forename: Phoebe M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: William S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Hayes
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015195:Drug Design; D004345:Drug Industry; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007993:Libraries, Medical