Webinar #11: IUPHAR Web Resources – Simplifying Complexity for Medicine and Education
Channel: World Data System of the ISC
Date: 09/03/2017

IUPHAR (International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology) has developed and is developing a series of web-based services for the Pharmacological Sciences, for education, and for drug discovery. These services enable the simplification and dissemination of highly complex datasets, via expert committees linked to ontologically-correct databases (e.g., the drug and receptor sites expressed by the human genome). This has also allowed IUPHAR—in connection with the main national pharmacological societies, particularly the British Pharmacological Society—to raise funds for curators and meetings. This simple model is open-ended and is being expanded to, for example, immunological targets and experimental protocols, and to educational projects.