Computer Applications in Pharmaceutical Research and Development


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A unique, holistic approach covering all functions and phases of pharmaceutical research and development While there are a number of texts dedicated to individual aspects of pharmaceutical research and development, this unique contributed work takes a holistic and integrative approach to the use of computers in all phases of drug discovery, development, and marketing. It explains how applications are used at various stages, including bioinformatics, data mining, predicting human response to drugs, and high-throughput screening. By providing a comprehensive view, the book offers readers a unique framework and systems perspective from which they can devise strategies to thoroughly exploit the use of computers in their organizations during all phases of the discovery and development process. Chapters are organized into the following sections: * Computers in pharmaceutical research and development: a general overview * Understanding diseases: mining complex systems for knowledge * Scientific information handling and enhancing productivity * Computers in drug discovery * Computers in preclinical development * Computers in development decision making, economics, and market analysis * Computers in clinical development * Future applications and future development Each chapter is written by one or more leading experts in the field and carefully edited to ensure a consistent structure and approach throughout the book. Figures are used extensively to illustrate complex concepts and multifaceted processes. References are provided in each chapter to enable readers to continue investigating a particular topic in depth. Finally, tables of software resources are provided in many of the chapters. This is essential reading for IT professionals and scientists in the pharmaceutical industry as well as researchers involved in informatics and ADMET, drug discovery, and technology development. The book's cross-functional, all-phases approach provides a unique opportunity for a holistic analysis and assessment of computer applications in pharmaceutics.










Computer Applications in Pharmacy


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Computer Applications in Pharmaceutical Science


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Research and development in the pharmaceutical industry is a time-consuming and expensive process, making it difficult for newly developed drugs to be formulated into commercially available products. Both formulation and process development can be optimized by means of statistically organized experiments, artificial intelligence and other computational methods. Simultaneous development and investigation of pharmaceutical products and processes enables application of quality by design concept that is being promoted by the regulatory authorities worldwide. Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology covers the fundamentals of experimental design application and interpretation in pharmaceutical technology, chemometric methods with emphasis of their application in process control, neural computing. It explains how applications are used at various stages. The book offers readers a unique framework and systems perspective from which they can devise strategies to thoroughly exploit the use of computers in their organizations during all phases of the discovery and development process. This is essential reading for IT professionals and scientists in the pharmaceutical industry as well as researchers involved in informatics. The book's cross-functional, all-phases approach provides a unique opportunity for a holistic analysis and assessment of computer applications in pharmaceutics.




Computer Aided Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery


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This book examines the role of computer-assisted techniques for discovering, designing, optimizing and manufacturing new, effective, and safe pharmaceutical formulations and drug delivery systems. The book discusses computational approaches, statistical modeling and molecular modeling for the development and safe delivery of drugs in humans. The application of concepts of QbD (Quality by Design), DoE (Design of Experiments), artificial intelligence and in silico pharmacokinetic assessment/simulation have been made a lot easier with the help of commercial software and expert systems. This title provides in-depth knowledge of such useful software with illustrations from the latest researches. The book also fills in the gap between pharmaceutics and molecular modeling at micro, meso and maro scale by covering topics such as advancements in computer-aided Drug Design (CADD), drug-polymer interactions in drug delivery systems, molecular modeling of nanoparticles and pharmaceutics/bioinformatics. This book provides abundant applications of computers in formulation designing and characterization are provided as examples, case studies and illustrations. Short reviews of software, databases and expert systems have also been added to culminate the interest of readers for novel applications in formulation development and drug delivery. Computer-aided pharmaceutics and drug delivery is an authoritative reference source for all the latest scholarly update on emerging developments in computed assisted techniques for drug designing and development. The book is ideally designed for pharmacists, medical practitioners, students and researchers.




Industrial pharmacy


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The purpose of this book is to introduce Pharmacy students to fundamentals of principles, practices and technologies involved in product development and also about Regulatory affairs.An excellent presentation is used in this book to demonstrate the interrelationship between laboratory scaling of pharmaceutical products, pilot plants and regulatory affairs. An extensive overview of various regulatory bodies, their guidelines and regulations governing the manufacturing and compounding of Pharmaceuticals are also explained.The present text book is made completely as per PCI syllabus to make an easy understanding for the students. Each chapter of this book is written at a level of students requirements. The objective upon completion of subject student can be able to 1. Know the process of Technology transfer from lab scale to commercial scale. 2. Know the process of pilot plant scale up of Pharmaceutical dosage form. 3. Know the various regulatory guidelines for pharmaceutical Industry. 4. Understand the approval process and regulatory requirements for drug product.




Computer Application in Pharmacy


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Computer Application in Pharmacy Theory and Practical is designed to serve as a textbook to cover the theoretical aspects and as a practical book to cover the practical applied aspects of the subject of computer applications for all Semester II BPharm students.




Modeling and Data Treatment in the Pharmaceutical Sciences


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From the Introduction The intent of this text is to develop with the student or reader, an ability to look at data and draw all the possible inferences from them; evaluate such inferences statistically; and then, most importantly, to form a picture, mathematically or not, of the actual process that is responsible for the responses. Hence, it has an aim to create an awareness of the use of statistics in pharmaceutical experimentation. This awareness transcends the rote use of canned programs in computers. Aside from addressing the use of statistics and computers for data analysis, many examples in the book point to the dangers of such use without thoughtful understanding of the principles involved. However, the ultimate aim of the book is the ability to use data to model a situation, a phenomenon, or a process and to logically decide on further experimentation. The author has experienced countless situations where someone ( a client, a student) would say that experiments were performed but that they were inconclusive, where, in reality, they were quite conclusive. This book concentrates on how to derive a model from existing data, how to plan further to shore up the model and what statistical, mathematical and programming data is associated with it. The emphasis is on modeling, the application of correct statistics and on common errors in published material. The procedures for modeling are outlined.