Emerging trends for pancreatitis in the scientific literature: a new report

Posted on October 19th, 2021 by Ann-Marie Roche in Pharma R&D

Elsevier has just released the Emerging trends for pancreatitis in the scientific literature report, which identifies proteins and genes linked to pancreatitis. Elsevier’s Professional Services team prepared it pro bono for Mission: Cure, a foundation that is focused on finding a disease-modifying treatment for pancreatitis. The team hopes that all researchers working on pancreatitis, which affects millions of people worldwide in both acute and chronic forms, will find it useful.

“The report distills vast amounts of scientific
literature to identify biological concepts or potential targets for drug
discovery that are increasingly found in recent publications,” said Eric J.
Gilbert, a Life Sciences consultant at Elsevier who was instrumental in putting
together the report.

This examination of emerging trends is a great example of
how data science and analytics are now being used to support the life sciences
and accelerate drug discovery. To create the report, text and data mining
technologies were used to draw relevant information from Elsevier’s vast
collection of scientific literature, and natural language processing also
played a role in analyzing the data. Gilbert noted that “some data was also
obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
databases.”

There are a number of interesting insights to be found in the report, which you can download here. Were there any insights that Gilbert himself found especially noteworthy?

“I was surprised that all of the identified terms or
processes related to pancreatitis had been validated in animal in vivo
studies,” he shared. “Several compounds are also in the clinic with the hope
that the positive animal data will translate to humans.”

The report explores ongoing pancreatitis R&D, the
biology and mechanisms of the disease, general knowledge gaps, and potential
therapeutics, so there is plenty to uncover for both scientists who are already
working on pancreatitis research and for those who want to better familiarize
themselves with the disease.

“While this report focuses on pancreatitis, this type of
analysis can be done for any disease of interest,” Gilbert noted.

If you would like to learn more about other reports like this that the Professional Services team has created, or to find out how they can help you, please visit their website.

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