Collaborative Drug Discovery WORKSHOP #PLA2024India

Presenter: Dr Antima Gupta, Application Scientist at Collaborative Drug Discovery

Antima Gupta is an Application Scientist with extensive experience across various research areas, contributing to a wide range of global research projects. With a deep passion for science, she provides technical support for Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), assisting researchers worldwide in fully leveraging CDD's innovative tools.

She holds a PhD in Biotechnology and has been honored with the prestigious UNESCO-L'Oreal International Young Women Scientist Award for her outstanding contributions to science. Before joining CDD, she gained significant expertise in the hit-to-lead and lead optimization stages of drug discovery, playing a pivotal role in identifying novel compounds with therapeutic potential, particularly in combating neglected tropical diseases. Her work at leading institutes in both the United Kingdom and India provided invaluable experience and global exposure, helping her develop a deep understanding of the scientific, regulatory, and cultural complexities that influence drug development across diverse regions.

This recognition underscores her commitment to advancing global health and fostering innovation in drug discovery.

Overview

Effective data management is essential for ensuring that research data remains accurate, secure, and easily accessible for future analysis and collaboration. The platform provides a user-friendly interface that promotes data organization, fosters collaboration, and improves overall workflow efficiency.

Key Principles for Effective Data Management in a Digital Lab

Cloud-Based Secure and Collaborative Platform: CDD Vault operates in the cloud, offering secure, encrypted storage for sensitive research data. Its architecture supports seamless collaboration across teams, institutions, and geographical boundaries. This allows real-time sharing, ensuring that research projects progress without unnecessary delays.
Foundation for Artificial Intelligence: By organizing and standardizing data, CDD Vault lays the groundwork for leveraging AI-driven insights. The platform supports machine learning applications, helping teams predict experimental outcomes, analyze large datasets, and optimize research efforts.
Automated Data Capture: Integrating automated data capture tools enables labs to reduce manual entry errors, ensuring accurate data collection from experiments.
Automated Data Processing: Once data is captured, CDD Vault automates data processing workflows, transforming raw data into usable formats for analysis. This minimizes time spent on repetitive tasks and saves resources.
Data Visualization: CDD Vault includes built-in data visualization tools, allowing researchers to generate meaningful graphical representations of their data. From scatter plots to dose-response curves, these advanced tools help users extract insights quickly and efficiently.
FAIR at Every Step: CDD Vault adheres to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), ensuring that data is well-organized, easily discoverable, and long-term accessible for future scientific endeavors. This enhances the utility and value of data for research and collaboration.

Conclusion

By integrating CDD Vault laboratories can streamline workflows, enhance secure data sharing, and support AI-driven insights. These capabilities make it an invaluable asset as labs move toward complete digitalization, enabling teams to manage compounds, assays, and data in a scalable and efficient manner.

WHO SHOULD BENEFIT

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) offers CDD Vault a versatile platform designed to support,

Biotech & Pharmaceutical
CRO
Academics
Agrotechnology
Consortia & Collaborations
Consumer Goods

This workshop will demonstrate the capabilities of the platform, anybody interested in digitalising a lab should attend the meeting to learn how to benefit from CDD Vault

WHY ATTENDING

Attending this workshop is a must for any research team or laboratory aiming to elevate their data management practices and stay ahead in today’s fast-paced scientific landscape.

Master Effective Data Management: You’ll learn how to organize, secure, and make your research data easily accessible for future analysis and collaboration, ensuring long-term research integrity and efficiency.
Discover Cloud-Based Collaboration: The workshop will showcase CDD Vault’s cloud-based platform, designed for secure, encrypted storage and seamless collaboration across teams, institutions, and geographic boundaries, speeding up project timelines.
Unlock AI-Driven Insights: With CDD Vault’s support for AI and machine learning, attendees will see how standardized data can help predict experimental outcomes and analyze large datasets, optimizing research efforts.

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) provides an intuitive software suite extensively used by creative biologists and chemists working in academic, biotechnology and pharmaceutical settings. Their flagship product, CDD Vault, enables researchers to intuitively organize and analyze both biological and chemical data, and to collaborate with partners through a straightforward web interface. CDD Vault helps scientists register entities, track inventory, manage bioassay data, capture experiments, calculate Structure-Activity Relationships (SAR), and mine their data for drug candidates. It also functions as an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) to capture and share experimental results. CDD Vault is differentiated through its intuitive design, superior performance, and workflows for secure, collaborative data sharing capabilities. CDD was founded in 2004 and presently serves thousands of researchers doing drug discovery all around the world.

Learn more at www.collaborativedrug.com