In an effort to accelerate drug discovery design, Infosys Technologies Limited will design and implement the Research Informatics System (RISe) at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a leading biotechnology company using a path-breaking co-creation engagement model. The expertise that leverages Infosys existing intellectual property in this field.
According to Ajay Shah, director - Research Informatics, Elan Pharmaceuticals collaborating with Infosys will create a comprehensive informatics platform for its discovery research needs. "We selected Infosys after a competitive Proof-of- Concept phase during which they fully established their credentials and investments in this changing field of discovery research, and demonstrated flexibility and maturity in terms of rapid application development using Agile and Scrum methodologies. With Infosys' solution and engagement model, Elan will be able to lower costs for scientific operation and facilitate innovation," he said.
Elan Corporation is a neuroscience-based biotechnology company. As Elan's informatics system, RISe will leverage Infosys' Scientific Innovation Solution for knowledge collaboration. Novel ways to unlock disparate data spread across in-house research labs and other commercial or public sources will be presented to scientists in context of their research needs. This will result in, among other things, a customized registry, and inventory and a workflow management system for biological entities, he added.
Elan and its research partners could realize significant gains in research productivity by focused and efficient selection of candidate drugs or biologics with the new RISe. Linking silos of heterogeneous data will not only contribute to a more effective selection process of biologics but could also reduce time to validate them clinically. Furthermore, the new system will reduce time spent on registering and experimenting with bio-entities, increase collaboration, and reduce chances of downstream failure.
Future versions of the software may enable integration of RISe with electronic lab notebook and analytical dashboards which will enable more efficient research knowledge management.
The co-creation engagement model enables Infosys to retain ownership of co-developed IP as part of the implementation. Relevant components of this reference implementation can be reused or repurposed by Infosys to deliver faster business benefits at other Life Sciences organizations.
"Elan's efforts are to create a scalable research informatics system for scientists to collaborate better, dovetails perfectly with our investments in solutions that improve scientific innovation and our efforts to streamline discovery research," said R Arun Kumar, head of Infosys' Global Life Sciences Practice, Infosys Technologies.