TURBO-CHARGING BIOINFORMATION FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

The following sections are included:

• From Gathering To Information Gathering

• Information Economy

• Drug Discovery

• The Human Genome Project

• Enabling Bioinformatics — The Enabler

• Proliferation Of Bioinformatics

• Market Structures

  • Perfect Competition

  • Monopoly

  • Monopolistic Competition

  • Oligopoly

• Market Structures Of Bioinformatics, Sequencing, Biotechnology And Pharmaceutical Companies

  • Goals of Bioinformatics Companies to Monopolize

  • Competition

• Bioinformatics Entrepreneurs And New Entrants

  • Bioinformatics Labor Supply

• Technology-Push, Market-Pull Or Interactive Marketing Strategies

• New Paradigm Adoption

• Who Prevails

  • Short-run Profit/Loss Optimization

  • Long-run Economic Profits

• Perfect Versus Monopolistic

• Bioinformatics Gorillas, Chimpanzees And Monkeys

• Early And Late Majority Asian Bioinformatics And Biotechnology Countries

  • Singapore — One of the Four Tigers

  • Korea — A Tiger

  • The Republic of China — A Tiger

  • Enter the Dragon — People's Republic of China

  • Rise with the Dragon

  • Asia and Pacific Rim Rising

• Who Owns What?

  • Loopholes In Intellectual Property System

  • Brain Drain Or Gain?