NIH Roadmap and Chemoinformatics

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NIH RoadmapandChemoinformatics

• Jeffery Loo
• NLM Associate Fellow
• Welch Library Journal Club
• 2004/12/7

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Discussion

• Science research developments
• (NIH Roadmap)
• Opportunities for information professionals
• (Chemoinformatics)

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Agenda

• Summarize 2 articles
• Discussion
• Demonstration

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NIH Roadmap definition

• new research vision
• accelerate discovery and knowledge application
• priorities

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Who is Dr. Elias Zerhouni?
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Motivations for the NIH Roadmap

• NIH is not responding fast enough to scientific
  developments
• Address critical scientific gaps
• Respond to converging nature of research

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Complex nature of disease

• Genes
• Behavior
• Diet/Nutrition
• Infectious agents
• Environment
• Society
• ???

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Briefly name the 3 Roadmap themes.

• New pathways to discovery
• Research teams of the future
• Re-engineering the clinical research team

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New Pathways to Discovery

• understand complex biological systems
• understand their connections
• build better "toolbox" for researchers

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Research Teams of the Future

• combining skills and disciplines
• expertise of nontraditional teams
• high-risk research
• interdisciplinary research
• public-private partnerships

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Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise

• Streamline clinical research
• Integrated networks and teams
• partnerships, IT, standards, information storage
• informatics infrastructure
• (NECTAR)

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NIH Roadmap summary

• Interdisciplinary projects focusing on
• clinical research
• structural biology
• informatics
• Role of biomedical information in the spectrum of
  medical research
• bench research
• technology and knowledge transfer
• clinical trials
• Criticisms?

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Chemoinformatics

• IT for managing chemical information and solving
  chemical problems
• chemistry information science computer
  science
• Driven by drug discovery research

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Drug discovery

• Chemical biological system ? desired
  response?

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Combinatorial chemistry

• synthesizing large numbers of related chemical
  compounds
• can help design drug leads
• information rich
• physiology of the biological effect
• starting material properties
• synthesis protocols

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High throughput screening
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Chemoinformatics tasks

• Manage information about
• Chemical properties
• Chemical synthesis
• Biological effects

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