Visual exploration of HTS databases: bridging the gap between chemistry and biology

As pharmaceutical corporations are under pressure to shorten research and development (R&D) cycles for new drugs, novel technologies are being deployed, producing a data explosion in the research environment. Researchers can then become the bottleneck in the R&D cycle when they are unable to analyze data quickly enough. To deliver on the promise of these high-throughput technologies, pharmaceutical R&D must introduce novel decision support systems to support the mantra of R&D decision support: access, analyze and publish.