http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/07/25/top-ten-best-selling-drugs-worldwide-2006 en-us 40 Walking the Web of Chemical Informatics <p><a href="http://depth-first.com/demo/20070725/ten-best-selling-drugs-worldwide-with-structures.html"><img src="http://depth-first.com/demo/20070725/images/atorvastatin.png" align="right" border="0"></img></a>If you haven't had a chance to do so yet, <a href="http://imshealth.com">IMS Health's</a> recent <a href="http://www.imshealth.com/ims/portal/front/articleC/0,2777,6599_40183881_81567488,00.html">Intelligence.360</a> on the global pharmaceutical industry is worth reading. One noteworthy set of data contained in the report is a list of the top ten best-selling drugs worldwide for 2006.</p> <p>A list of chemical names and numbers by itself is not that useful. However, adding chemical structures has a way of prompting better questions and generating many more ideas. In that spirit, I've created an online table of the ten best-selling drugs worldwide for 2006. This table contains the 2D chemical structure, generic name, trade name, global sales in US$, company, and indication for each drug.</p> <p>A new software package codenamed "Firefly" was used to generate the chemical structures in the table. Firefly is a lightweight 2D editor and rendering library written in Java. A <a href="http://depth-first.com/articles/tag/firefly">series of articles on Firefly</a> can be found on Depth-First.</p> <p><a href="http://depth-first.com/demo/20070725/ten-best-selling-drugs-worldwide-with-structures.html">This link</a> takes you to the table.</p> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:40:00 +0000 urn:uuid:129e40cc-70eb-4d9d-b04e-695cbad730a5 Rich Apodaca http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/07/25/top-ten-best-selling-drugs-worldwide-2006 Meta pharmasales firefly 2d