title: Empowering industrial research with shared biomedical vocabularies.
abstract: The life science industries (including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and consumer goods) are exploring new business models for research and development that focus on external partnerships. In parallel, there is a desire to make better use of data obtained from sources such as human clinical samples to inform and support early research programmes. Success in both areas depends upon the successful integration of heterogeneous data from multiple providers and scientific domains, something that is already a major challenge within the industry. This issue is exacerbated by the absence of agreed standards that unambiguously identify the entities, processes and observations within experimental results. In this article we highlight the risks to future productivity that are associated with incomplete biological and chemical vocabularies and suggest a new model to address this long-standing issue.
authors.affiliation: Connected Discovery Ltd., London, UK. lee@connecteddiscovery.com
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Harland
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Larminie
authors.forename: Susanna-Assunta
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sansone
authors.forename: Sorana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.forename: M Scott
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Braxenthaler
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cantor
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Filsell
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: Enoch
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matern
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Musen
authors.forename: Jasmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saric
authors.forename: Ted
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Slater
authors.forename: Jabe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: Ian
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authors.lastname: Dix
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016208:Databases, Factual; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014825:Vocabulary