Accelrys, Inc., a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management solutions, has announced the launch of ScienceCloud, a new SaaS-based information management and collaboration workspace. ScienceCloud advances collaborative drug discovery with a new generation of integrated applications built on a scalable, cloud-based scientific platform. With no software to manage and no hardware to maintain, ScienceCloud improves operational excellence in globally networked research, significantly reducing IT cost and effort.
As the next step in Accelrys' externalised collaboration initiative, ScienceCloud takes secure, real-time transfer of project data within geographically-dispersed life science research networks to a new level. ScienceCloud provides project-centered IP storage in a secure information warehouse and enforces sponsor business rules on results posted by network partners. ScienceCloud enhances the virtual workspace with new mobile applications and tools, allowing project teams to leverage social communication for building and sharing project information. The result is a more holistic collaboration strategy for partnering pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, contract research organizations (CROs) and academic research teams.
ScienceCloud provides applications to upload, process, store, search and analyse structured and unstructured scientific records critical for drug discovery projects including biology, chemistry, analytical, safety and pharmacokinetics data. With ScienceCloud, scientists can rapidly access research data including experiments, chemical structures, assays and other test results and are able to make informed decisions based on the most complete and current information available. Research managers gain continuous visibility into projects and the ability to understand the latest results across all organisations involved. As collaboration networks evolve, it is easy for sponsoring organisations to quickly spin up and spin down partner engagements with the data they provide securely partitioned in the system.
ScienceCloud leverages an open ecosystem of web and mobile-accessible application capabilities initially including: Collaborative Project Management; Experiment and IP Capture; Custom Business Rules Extension; Mobile Device Enablement; and Publishing and Sharing Services.
