What is hindering data from crossing silos?
Chemists, for example, perhaps don’t want to create a resource for others to fish around with on their side of the house. TB: In the discovery side and early development, it is a turf environment. Historically, people were not encouraged to share. The GSKs, the Mercks, the Pfizers are realizing their most valuable assets are going out the door every night. They want to capture knowledge and a lot of this needs to be semantically dimensioned. One thing we have seen are models in which researchers are incentivized to put this kind of knowledge into resources. SW: Many different mechanisms are being tried, and for the time being all of these approaches, no matter how you look at it, are a step forward, because data integration is starting to happen. The natural boundaries around [the concept] ‘this is my data’ or ‘your data’ are going to go away, because the pipeline isn’t there, and it helps no one if the data isn’t sharable, or we can’t create the necessary leverage out of that. What we
