[GOAL] Big Pharma companies are developing a standard format for data

[Danny Kingsley]

<apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

On 20 October I attended an event at the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of the other presenters was Gerhard Noelken who talked about a project that Pfizer and other big pharmaceuticals are developing through something called the Allotrope Foundation which is ‘building an open framework for laboratory data’.

The Allotrope Data Format (ADF) is an attempt to provide a standardised format for data. It sounded when he presented like this will be quite a big thing for data sharing - at least in chemistry. And seriously these guys have the cash to build something that works. From memory the companies involved will be implementing it in 2016 and it will be publicly released in November 2016.

His abstract for the talk:

Allotrope Foundation, how a data standard and taxonomy for analytical data will support data integration and knowledge generation. 
Dr Gerhard Noelken, Technology and Innovation Group, Pfizer Pharmaceutical Sciences. 

This presentation will provide an update on the progress of the Allotrope Foundation towards delivering a Framework solution for managing analytical chemistry data throughout its lifecycle. It will include details on the deliverables, timelines, and results not only on the Allotrope Framework delivery but also on the Integration projects happening across many of the Allotrope member companies. The intelligent analytical laboratory is moving closer to reality; an automated laboratory where data, methods and processes are seamlessly shared between software applications and analytical instruments. The Framework leverages emerging standards including: the Allotrope Data Format to store the analytical chemistry results, a set of taxonomies to provide accurate metadata for laboratory systems; and class libraries to provide access to data, metadata, and business objects. 

The reason for my delay in letting people know about this is the slides have only just been released - they are available here http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/18885/measurement-information-and-innovation-digital-disruption-in-the-chemical-sciences <http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/18885/measurement-information-and-innovation-digital-disruption-in-the-chemical-sciences> Gerhard’s slides can be downloaded from that page.

Danny

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