its a brief presentation about automation and robotics in drug discovery.

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2. AUTOMATION AND
ROBOTICS IN DRUG
DISCOVERY PROCESS
Presented by,
B.Abhinay,
M.Pharm,
Pharmacology,
C.M.R.C.P.
Under the guidance of,
Ms. Meenu Singh,
M.Pharm (Ph.D),
Asst. Proffesor,
C.M.R.C.P.
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3.  Overview of Drug Discovery
 Selecting Robots for Use in Drug
discovery and Testing
 Instrumentation
INDEX
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4. Overview of drug discovery
process
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5. Overview of DDP
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6. Serendipity
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7. Pharmaceutical Industry
Challenges Opportunities
•Increasing cost of R&D
•Pressure on pricing
• Low output of new
products
•Fierce competition
•Increased regulatory
hurdles
New windows of innovation
– Genomics
– Proteomics
– Biotechnology
– Combinatorial Chemistry
• Better understanding of the
mechanism of disease
Robotics and
Automation play a role in
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8. New Tools for Drug Discovery
• Genomics
• Proteomics
• Bioinformatics
• High-throughput screening
• Combinatorial chemistry
• Micro array technology
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9. Drug Discovery & Development
Target
discovery Screening
Lead-
optimis-
ation
ADMET
Develop-
ment
Registr-
ation
Where do Automation and Robotics play a key role?
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10. Selecting Robots for Use in
Drug
discovery and Testing
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11. ROBOT?
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12. DEFINITION:
"A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator
designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized
devices through various programmed motions for the
performance of a variety of tasks"
Robot Institute of America, 1979
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13. Benefits of using Robots in Drug
Discovery and Testing
•Faster, more consistent and more cost-effective
•High degree of repeatability
• Every parameter in
the process can be automatically monitored, recorded and
verified
•Thorough documentation is possible
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14. Types of Robots
There are three types of industrial robots most commonly used
in drug discovery and testing:
(1) Cartesian
(2) SCARA(selective compliance articulated robot arm)
(3) Articulated.
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15. Cartesian Robots
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16. Chief advantage of Cartesian robots
• Low in cost
•Often incorporated into automation subsystems or
machines dedicated to a single purpose, such as assay
testing
Disadvantage
•although their restricted range of motion limits their
usage.
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17. SCARA Robots
•Selective Compliance
Articulated Robot Arm
•The unique design of SCARAs
gives them a high degree of
rigidity
•moves very fast and with
precise repeatability
•SCARAs excel at high-speed
pick-and-place and other
material-handling tasks.
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18. Articulated Robots
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19. •vertically rotating “forearm”
and two vertically rotating “wrist” joints, let them
perform many of the same types of movements as a human
•forearm and wrist
pick up an object no matter how it is oriented off
the horizontal plane
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20. Instrumentation
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21. Screening Compound Collections
Natural Product Libraries (>200,000 extracts)
Synthetic Libraries (>1,000,000 compounds)
Rapid hit
Vary screen
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22. Preparation of Chemical
Substances
Synthesis
1) Microwave Synthesizers
2) Automated Synthesizers
3) Pipettes and other precision
4) Lquid dispensing and transferring
devices
Rapid, time efficient Synthesis of
multiple compounds
simultaneously
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(2)
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23. Preparation of Chemical Substances
1) Largest use of Robotics and Automated Technology for bench
chemist
2) Robotics provide more advanced equipment for parallel
synthetic applications(synthesize up to 8 large samples ,product
scale between 100 mg and 20 g)
3) Sample weighing to 0.0001 g accuracy
(1)
Sample synthesis robot
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24. Preparation of Chemical Substances
• Multi-channel automated equipment allows for rapid
purification (mg to gm scale)
• Purification of 10’s to 1000’s of compounds could not be
possible
Saves time
Reduces cost
Reduces waste stream
Higher purity compounds
Allows chemist to multi-task
Purification
parallel purification robot
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25. Preparation of Chemical Substances
•Addresses the need for Quality Control and Substance
Identification
•Equipment allows for:
Sample submission
Data acquisition
Data processing
Allows chemist to obtain accurate results and
uncompromising quality
Purification
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26. •Preparation of multiple daughter plates
•Register bar-coded vials
•Generate registration spreadsheets
Preparation of Chemical Substances
Ability to Rapidly perform tedious
Repetitive task
Consistently accurate
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27. Automated synthesis, along with high throughput purification, have
significantly impacted the drug discovery process by improving purity,
yield and reproducibility.
From synthesis to purification, robotics and automated techniques play
a key role in the synthesis of new chemical entities.
More compounds, less time = Cost effective
Summary
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28. MITSUBISHI ELECTRI SCARA ROBOT RH-6SH RH-6SDH.flv
Epson has 3 types of robots, Scara, Cartesian, & 6 axis.flv
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29. References
1)DENSORobotics-Selecting Robots for Use in Drug
Discovery and Testing
2) Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery, Dr. Peter Wipf
Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh
http://ccc.chem.pitt.edu/wipf/index.html
3) AMRI-Drug Discovery and Development: Applications
of Robotics and High-Throughput Instrumentation
Brian T. Gregg, Ph.D. Research Fellow
Medicinal Chemistry, June 25, 2007
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