Drug discovery software is used to develop new pharmaceutical drugs and test whether a newly created drug will be effective in treating a particular disease. Drug discovery software automates and leverages innovative technology that significantly cuts down on the arduous process of drug development, testing, and going to market.
Most drug discovery solutions offer screening, predictive analytics, modeling, simulation, and computational capabilities. Those functionalities help with tasks such as image analysis and clinical trial results submission, as well as ensuring accurate reproducibility. Researchers and scientists use drug discovery software to gain market intelligence, take advantage of advancements in drug design and synthesis, tackle evolving and adapting diseases, and maintain and manage the integrity of data as drugs transition from the discovery phase to the clinical trial phase.
To qualify for inclusion in the Drug Discovery category, a product must:
- Support the processes and workflows of pharmaceutical drug researchers and scientists
- Aggregate and analyze disease, chemical, drug, and other types of stored data
- Extract insight from datasets
- Integrate with third-party modeling and visualization tools