THE CONCEPT OF VIRTUAL LABORATORY AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY.
M.ŞT. MĂRUŞTERI, C.E. VARI, KLARA BRÎNZANIUC,
SANDA COPOTOIU, MARIA DOGARU
University of Medicine and Pharmacy Târgu Mureş
Gh. Marinescu, 38, MS, 540139

Abstract:

The advent and growth of digital telecommunications has accelerated the globalization of scientific research through support for greatly enhanced interaction among scientists at distant sites and the development of new organizational structures for research. "Virtual laboratories" or "collaboratories" are emerging as the key embodiments of this trend that includes the vast international human genome collaboration, the development of a distributed computing project for solving problems related with protein folding or remote collaboration in the field of drug discovery.
The aim of this article is to present the main concepts regarding virtual laboratories and their important role in the field of pharmacology and drug discovery, as well as some example of implementation for such solutions.

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