Making Drug Discovery Data FAIR: The Yawning Gap between Aspiration and Implementation (recording)

Recording from BioITWorld October 2020

The FAIRification of data is gaining impetus. However, for drug discovery, the envisaged increased flow of structures and bioactivity into major public databases, such as PubChem, has not happened. Reasons will be reviewed, but a key impediment is that even when supplementary data from journal papers is submitted to open repositories, such as figshare, there is neither push nor pull into PubChem. Ways to ameliorate this major bottleneck will be discussed, including bypassing the entombment of chemistry in PDFs