Session Chair:
Robert Brown, SciTegic, USA
Phil Mchale, Elsevier MDL, USA
Access to accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information is key to making good project decisions during the discovery process. This symposium will consider challenges and solutions in gathering, organizing, analyzing and presenting discovery information for a research organization, for both internal and externally generated data. The session will address new paradigms for information and knowledge management and the application of new techniques such as workflow to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of information organization and data analysis. We will also present the architecture, design and functionality of knowledge management systems and case studies of their operational effectiveness in the drug-discovery process. The impact of external resources such as target class knowledge bases in drug discovery and their integration into information and knowledge management systems will also be discussed.