How is Rosetta working at Merck today?
Martin: There’s Rosetta Inpharmatics, which is the part of Merck that’s doing molecular profiling and genetics research, and then we have Rosetta Biosoftware, that is part of Rosetta Inpharmatics that makes and sells software products such as Resolver, Elucidator, and Syllego, which we also use internally at Merck. At Rosetta Inpharmatics, I work closely with scientists working in the bioinformatics and the pathways space, who have taken a biological point of view to integrate information. One approach is trying to integrate as much information that is accessible, assay data and so on, for when scientists pull up a gene or target. They have developed a target gene index (TGI)… With a given gene, you can see all the relevant information. I think most pharmas have attempted that. I’d say it’s the depth of the information and integration with some of the chemical space that is different than what I have seen at other pharmas. This depth of integration within TGI is still growing… We d
