Why there are so many legacy applications in pharma and what to do about it

Computers have now been used to collect, store and perform calculations on laboratory data for over 30 years. Since the record retention policies for most regulated functions in a drug company state that records must be kept for at least 35 years, some of what was collected in the early days of computerized laboratory operation [...]

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Platform Overview at CPSA 2009

At the “Chemical and Pharmaceutical Structure Analysis” (CPSA) conference last week, Indigo BioSystem presented an overview of our informatics platform.   In my previous post I gave a rationale for simplifying to a single platform application and in my talk, I shared some thoughts contrasting the platform to using manually-intensive collaborative and analysis tools like [...]

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The Evolution of a Platform

This blog is intended to give an inside view of Indigo’s product development including the rationale and thought processes we go through to create products that solve problems with data analysis in the life sciences.  I usually try to explain the ideas behind our products.
This post is a little different.
As a technologist in a software [...]

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