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Find and Track Companies that are Working on Drugs for a Particular Type of Indication?
TOPIC: In this example, you will set up a Dialog Alert to monitor companies who are developing drugs for inflammatory indications. A Dialog Alert is a current awareness service that allows a search to run automatically whenever new records are added to the database(s).
Two databases useful for this search are IMS R&D Focus (File 445) and Pharmaprojects (File 128)*. IMS R&D Focus contains two types of records: R&D Focus (Drug Profile records) and R&D Drug News (Drug News records). Information provided includes: full synonyms, licensing status, patent summary, development history, commercial potential, company activity, scientific and commercial summaries and abstracts of significant scientific papers. Pharmaprojects reports on the progress of new pharmaceutical products, both new chemical and biotechnological entities, at all stages of development.
You will also use the RANK command in this search
to find companies that are in a particular therapeutic
class. The RANK command extracts terms from a
specified field in a set of records and lists
them in ranked order, with the most highly posted
term appearing first.
*(Subscriber access.)
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 445
SELECT PHASE OR CLINICALS OR IND OR PRE()REGISTRATION OR NDA
SELECT TC=L4A?
SELECT S2 AND PY=2004:2006
Click S3 > Tasks > Rank
Check Company name (CO=)
Check top 5 companies
SELECT S1 AND S3 AND S4
TYPE S5/3/1-3
Click S5 > Tasks > Save Alert
Follow the Alert menu
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 445, IMS R&D Focus.
2. SELECT keywords to include any status a drug might be in.
3. SELECT the therapeutic class code for immuno-suppressive agents (L4A) and narrow the search to the most recent years.
4. In the Set Links pane, click S3 > Tasks > Rank. Rank lets you extract the companies that are working most in this therapeutic class and rank them with the company with the highest number of drugs listed first.
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5. Check Company Name (CO=) from the ranked list and click Search.
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6. From the displayed list of companies, check the ones that you want to track, in this example the top 5, and click Search.
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7. A set is automatically created with the companies you selected.
8. Combine sets of company names, keywords, and therapeutic class limited by publication year.
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9. TYPE out a few records to check the relevance of your search before setting up the Alert.
Note the drug name, originator, therapeutic class code and development status.
10. From the Set Links pane, click S5 > Tasks > Save Alert to begin the Alert setup process.
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11. Complete the Alert screen, including Name, scheduling and print command.
Note you can set up the Alert based on the update frequency of the database or on a schedule you create.
You can send the Alert via e-mail as in the example. Click Create Address to create a new address or List Address to see the ones already set up.
12. Click Save to set up the Alert. A message displays indicating the Alert has been created.
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