Before discussing innovation, the scope of drug discovery covered by this paper should be defined. The drug discovery process covers a broad range of disciplines from genomics and target discovery to pre-clinical testing. Within this space there are a variety of hardware, software and biological technologies.
However, to keep this article to a manageable size, it will focus on developments primarily in assays and hardware used in target validation through screening and into profiling. This does not diminish the many important advances that have been made with RNAi, cellbased assays (especially the progress with stem cell), new biological approaches to target evaluation, data mining, image recognition software or other innovations.
Research Article: Asian Journal of Plant Science & Research
Research Article: Asian Journal of Plant Science & Research