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Precompetitive activity to address the biological data needs of drug discovery

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 13, pages 83–84 (2014)Cite this article

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The efficiency and effectiveness of target selection and validation could be improved with accessible, standardized and integrated biological reference data sets. Such resources should be established through precompetitive approaches.

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    Ben Sidders & Alex Gutteridge

  2. Christoph Brockel is at Pfizer, 35 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA.,

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    Lee Harland & Bryn Williams-Jones

  4. Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Park, Måløv, DK-2760, Denmark

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  7. Bayer Pharma, Berlin, 13342, Germany

    Henrik Seidel & Bertram Weiss

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B.S., C.B. and A.G. are full-time employees of Pfizer.

L.H. and B.W.-J. are full-time employees of ConnectedDiscovery.

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Sidders, B., Brockel, C., Gutteridge, A. et al. Precompetitive activity to address the biological data needs of drug discovery. Nat Rev Drug Discov 13, 83–84 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd4230

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