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Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics in Drug Discovery and Development- a Socio-economic Perspective

Submitted to the faculty of the Informatics Graduate Program in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Bioinformatics in the School of Informatics Indiana University May 2006 / A plethora of genomic and proteomic information was uncovered by the U.S Human Genome Project (HGP) – mostly by means of bioinformatics tools and techniques. Despite the impact that bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics were projected to have in the drug discovery and development process, the challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry, such as the high cost and the slow pace of drug development, appear to persist. Socio-economic barriers exist that mitigate the full integration of bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics into the drug discovery and development process, hence limiting the desired and expected effects.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/618
Date26 July 2006
CreatorsAnyanwu, Chukwuma Eustace
ContributorsJones, Josette
Source SetsIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format3255808 bytes, application/msword

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