Knowledge Management Mining for Gold in the Lab.

Chemical Week, October, 2001 by MULLIN, RICK

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT HAS A reputation for being a soft science, hut in the past couple of years it has been forged into a useful tool for market-focused laboratory R&D. The broad-ranging, somewhat nebulous practice of putting workers' knowledge and skills into a communal database has shaped up into a technique for managing heavy volumes of information with minimum resources. Research-intensive companies are beginning to invest in text mining software after years of installing databases and document management systems. The result is the creation of a system for "high throughput screening of research data," says Manu Shabrang, R&D business excellence leader at Dow Chemical. Shabrang alludes to the laboratory technique of screening vast numbers of possible new drug or...

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