Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that Lundbeck, the global pharmaceutical company specialising in brain diseases, has selected Elsevier's Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry (RMC) to support the ambitions of its research organisation and accelerate data sharing and mining.
The current implementation will provide Lundbeck scientists with integrated access to vital chemical and biological information from the Reaxys and RMC databases, as well as internal Lundbeck data from a single, seamless interface. Both organisations have committed for multiple years and envision projects involving procurement and inventory solution integration, predictive modelling and analytical solutions helping researchers to accelerate their work.
Life science companies are struggling with the question of how to manage the vast amounts of data they are generating. The fragmented nature of life sciences R&D - which often involves having dozens of labs with hundreds of scientists scattered across different geographies - can make it very difficult for firms to know what experiments have already been conducted. As a result, researchers frequently end up unnecessarily duplicating experiments already done by their colleagues. Even when experimental data is captured by ELNs or LIMS, this information is not often available to other research teams, leading to wasted time and resources.
Reaxys retrieves literature, compound properties and chemical reaction data faster than any other solution and, together with RMC, offers pharma companies a 'one-stop shop' chemistry ecosystem thanks to its integration capabilities, innovative APIs, and bioactivity data. The Reaxys platform contains over 240 years of unparalleled chemistry content, including: 119 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds; 46 million chemical reactions; 500 million published experimental facts; 16,000 chemistry related periodicals; Asian, European and US patents; and six indexing sources for a cross-disciplinary view of chemistry. RMC offers access to data from a vast repository of peer-reviewed journal articles and patents and is interoperable with Reaxys.
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