This document provides a summary of a presentation on using MongoDB and big data technologies to accelerate pharmaceutical research and development at AstraZeneca. The presentation discusses:
- AstraZeneca's focus on using next generation sequencing and big data to predict drug effectiveness and identify new drug targets
- Pilot projects using MongoDB to store and query unstructured genomic data at scale, which proved the technology's ability to enable researchers more quickly
- A vision for an experiment management system to integrate various data sources and processing pipelines using big data technologies