Dr. Weaver’s presentation, describes how Array Biopharma integrated Drug Development and Translational Medicine data sources into a common platform in order to avoid infrastructure, training and maintenance costs associated with storing and analyzing the data in separate informatics systems. Dr. Weaver also describes key considerations for analyzing the disparate data, technical and procedural decisions that must be made, and software best-practices that help the resulting system succeed.
Key topics include:
- Build vs. Buy trade-offs.
- Key technical considerations.
- Recommendations on the team structure.
- Recommendations on data ontologies, tagging, and metadata.
- Some suggested best practices (“Apply standards but build for flexibility”).