Virtual Lab
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Strand Virtual Lab™ (SVL) is a customized solution with a dedicated, flexible on-site/off-shore discovery informatics team, serving as an extension of your internal organization. Using SVL as an extended R&D arm, you can streamline the acquisition, integration, analysis, and reporting of data to enhance R&D productivity and agility.
To provide best-in-class solutions and meet your discovery research needs, SVL leverages the diverse expertise of Strand's dedicated Centers of Excellence (CoEs). These CoEs have deep domain knowledge in cheminformatics, bioinformatics and research informatics, and have expertise in third party software and technologies. The CoEs provide customers and in-house R&D teams with new technology directions and cutting edge research solutions.
Centers of Excellence
Our Center of Excellence (CoE) concept focuses on bringing together a cross-functional team of highly trained and experienced professionals and directing their combined superior capabilities to a particular industry requirement in the discovery informatics area.
The Cheminformatics CoE provides comprehensive computational chemistry solutions for a broad variety of research needs including protein structure prediction, structure-based drug design, antibody/immunogen design, QSAR and lead optimization.
The Bioinformatics CoE deals with solutions for areas such as omics data analysis, pathway analysis, systems biology, data mining and visualization, while the COE for Research Informatics specializes in innovative IT solutions that combine fundamental algorithmic research with practical applications in programming, web development and data integration.
Delivery Methodology
Strand Virtual Lab uses a unique delivery methodology guaranteed to achieve project results in half the time, with half the people, with a higher level of quality than competitive techniques. This is Strand’s Adaptive Delivery Methodology (ADM) that enables informed, timely and efficient decision-making by small effective teams with minimum communication overheads.
Based on Agile Software Development Methodology, ADM is also highly flexible and allows changes throughout the development process, including changes in resourcing options.
Value Proposition
Strand Virtual Labs delivers clients a compelling, four-pronged value proposition:
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Cost-Effectiveness: Focused research teams without any of the associated training expenses, no long-term/sunk costs and a combination of off-shore and on-site personnel for best results
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Flexibility: Adjustable team profiles to meet changing needs and availability of temporary personnel to meet short-term requirements
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Full Operation Control
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Capable Capacity: Global best practices followed in all areas and capacity augmentation that is scalable, flexible and economical
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