Of soft drinks and software: a framework to sustain innovation in computational molecular design

One of the challenges in sustaining innovation in computational molecular design is the need to harness and deliver promising solutions irrespective of their source, without creating new software applications or re-write existing ones. In this talk, I will provide an overview of Pfizer's molecular design infrastructure and the paradoxical solution that we've used to address this classic dilemma. I will also provide examples of specific computational methods and algorithms enabled by this approach, and describe our recent foray into cloud computing.