The need for scientific software engineering in the pharmaceutical industry

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design - Tập 31 - Trang 301-304 - 2016
Brock Luty1, Peter W. Rose2
1Department of Scientific Computing, Dart NeuroScience, LLC, San Diego, USA
2RCSB Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Tóm tắt

Scientific software engineering is a distinct discipline from both computational chemistry project support and research informatics. A scientific software engineer not only has a deep understanding of the science of drug discovery but also the desire, skills and time to apply good software engineering practices. A good team of scientific software engineers can create a software foundation that is maintainable, validated and robust. If done correctly, this foundation enable the organization to investigate new and novel computational ideas with a very high level of efficiency.

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