title: The need for scientific software engineering in the pharmaceutical industry.
abstract: Scientific software engineering is a distinct discipline from both computational chemistry project support and research informatics. A scientific software engineer not only has a deep understanding of the science of drug discovery but also the desire, skills and time to apply good software engineering practices. A good team of scientific software engineers can create a software foundation that is maintainable, validated and robust. If done correctly, this foundation enable the organization to investigate new and novel computational ideas with a very high level of efficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Scientific Computing, Dart NeuroScience, LLC, San Diego, CA, 92131, USA. bluty@dartneuroscience.com.
authors.forename: Brock
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0486-8352
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Luty
authors.affiliation: RCSB Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D019295:Computational Biology; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000379:methods*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D012984:Software
keywords: Research software engineer; Scientific software engineer