title: Ontologies in drug discovery.
abstract: Knowledge is a fundamental driver of innovation in drug discovery. Although investment in the automated generation of data has led to swelling databases, these have not been harnessed effectively to meet the challenges of real-world business. It has been too difficult to make the necessary connections between pieces of knowledge in a range of systems towards the bigger picture and to formulate and execute a response to this. The new generation of ontology-based semantic technologies is changing the way that information is represented and used, building a new power system for R&D, based on the generation, distribution and application of knowledge across the organisation.:
authors: CTO BioWisdom Ltd, Harston Mill, Harston, Cambridge, UK CB2 5GG. Electronic address:steve.gardner@biowisdom.com.
authors: Stephen P
authors: SP
authors: Gardner