Genrich Altshuller
 
 
  “Inventing is the removal of a technical contradiction with the help of certain principles  
Genrich Altshuller, author of TRIZ
 
     
 
T. S. Eliot
 
 
"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "
Choruses from “The Rock” by 1948 Literature Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot
 
     
 
Dmitri Mendeleyev
 
 
“The mere accumulation of facts, even an extremely extensive collection, ... does not constitute scientific method; it provides neither a direction for further discoveries nor does it even deserve the name of science in the higher sense of that word. The cathedral of science requires not only material, but a design, harmony ... a design ... for the harmonic composition of parts and to indicate the pathway, by which the most fruitful new material might be generated.”
 
     
 
Linus Pauling
 
 
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas"
 
     
 
Reverse Informatics

WHAT?
Knowing How to See

Data, Information and Knowledge (D-I-K) are regarded as the basic building blocks of Information Science. If we consider the sequential order D-I-K as Forward Informatics, the process of getting back the “source Data” from the primary literature can be called as Reverse Informatics. That is, K-I-D.

Reverse Informatics helps you to gain true and complete knowledge from the “biased” knowledge by retrieving back the “naked” facts, that is Data.

After all, as someone said, what a Copernicus or Darwin really achieved was not a discovery of a new theory, but a fertile new point of view.
   

SO WHAT?
Connecting the Unconnected

May be you want to know the list of in force patents on kinase inhibitors, or need to know the list of compounds that are reported to be interacting with GPCRs, or interested in the bioactivity, synthetic methodology, pharmacology and toxicology/metabolism collections generally derived from the primary literature, journals and patents. We make it easier for researchers to find the information in the context of their work
 
 

NOW WHAT?
Looking at the Other side


Literature is filled with billions of pages of highly useful information. Reverse informatics is a set of protocols and tools that “know” how to get the data back from a given article. The purpose of Reverse informatics is

   
To utilize the data for chemgenomics concepts such as, scaffold morphing and target hopping
   
To facilitate and enable data exchange, data management and knowledge management across the entire life sciences community
   
To enable the widest availability of open interoperate software to solve critical problems in life sciences research and drug development.