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How big data analytics can make personalised care a reality

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Johannes Goll, Global Head of Emmes’ Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics department, explains how big data analytics can deliver improved therapies and bring clinical research one step close to realising the potential of personalised care.

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Big data – charting a new path to drug discovery and development

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Drug discovery and development timelines can span 10-15 years or more from initial discovery to market approval and typically require the analysis of massive amounts of data. One system that has been especially useful in generating relevant and accurate biological data is the patient- derived xenograft (PDX) model for cancer studies.

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The challenges and trends of cell & gene therapies 

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DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks at the cell and gene therapy landscape, examining the challenges facing developers and the trends we can expect to see throughout the year. . There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. billion, compared to $19.9 Cancer is king .

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New podcast: A deep dive into US drug discovery

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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “What lies in the future for genomics and big data?”, ”, which covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 3 – Summer 2022 of DDW.

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The DDW Podcast: 2023 in review

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Ng is working on critical challenges in clinical trials, specifically in planning and recruitment, and has been building innovative solutions designed to benefit patients and researchers – with a focus on efficiency, transparency and diversity in clinical development. Listen here. Listen here.

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How digital innovation is helping therapeutics to get to market faster

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As AI-designed drugs start to enter large-scale clinical trials, DDW’s Diana Spencer investigates how new digital tools are reinventing and reshaping drug discovery for the future. Automation is also being applied to genomics sample preparation, an area that requires particular robustness and scalability.

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The role of machine learning in cancer drug development

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Genome interpretation: To decipher genetic variants in cancer . Current problem: Genetic variants identified using genomic sequencing belong to coding regions of the genome, leaving out the majority of cancer-associated variants that lie in the non-coding areas outside exons, comprising over 98% of the genome.