[Sigia-l] IA in Biotech

[Margaret Hanley]

My company Ingenta is involved in an EU sponsored
BioInformatics projects which is being developed over the
next three years. The aim is to link factual (protein,
sequence and nucleotide databases), literature and image
databases together in one resource.

And we have had IA resources assigned. It is just the
beginning  of the project, so keep an eye on
http://www.e-biosci.org.

Mags

 --- Ziya Oz <ZiyaOz at earthlink.net> wrote: > I was reading
in BioIT World (Oracle CEO) Larry Ellison's
> inimitable views
> on privacy and the clinical trial process:
> 
> "You think your health records are private. I'll tell you
> what - half your
> health records are private because they're lost. The
> other half are in a
> manila envelope, sitting on a shelf, being read by a
> 16-year-old who's
> working part-time for your doctor, bored to death,''
> Ellison said.
> [...]
> "If a million people go untreated and die, the FDA thinks
> that's OK. If a
> million people get treated with a drug, and many are
> saved but two people
> are killed by the drug, then the FDA thinks that's really
> bad," Ellison
> said. "It is really scandalous today that the FDA is so
> cautious about the
> delivery of a drug that may have such a bad side effect,
> and therefore so
> slow taking drugs through clinical trials. If we had the
> clinical records,
> then I could screen you for toxicity for this drug."
> 
> <http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/050702_report260.html>
> 
> It's no secret that information management and delivery
> is a huge issue in
> this field. Is there anyone here involved with IA (not so
> much broadly in
> healthcare but more specifically) in biotech and
> bioinformatics?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ziya
> 
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