David Wild wins $120k Grant from Lilly for Web Service Devlelopment

Informatics Faculty Member Receives $120K Grant from Eli Lilly & Company for Research Project

Eli Lilly and Company has awarded a one-year, $120,000 grant to Professor David Wild of the Indiana University School of Informatics to research ways to data mine the ever-increasing amount of publicly available information about chemical compounds and their biological activities.

David Wild Wild, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Chemical Informatics Program for the School, is developing a software tool that will aggregate data from a multitude of online databases and computation tools using a web service infrastructure that was previously developed through funding from the NIH. The tool will be a "one-stop-shop" for understanding the properties and behavior of chemical compounds, in particular existing and potential drug molecules.

"The creation of this software is significant because it will enable a comprehensive picture of a potential drug's behavior to be assessed, not just using static information from databases, but also using active on-the-fly predictions and calculations from state-of-the-art tools," said Professor Wild. "Drug researchers will have a single tool that can give them needed information from the public arena, and we hope it will help to speed up the drug discovery pipeline."

More information at http://djwild.info