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BioProcess Guide Knowledge tool
Through Fast Trak Process Development, Amersham Biosciences can help optimize your process,
through expert advice or laboratory experiments addressing your specific challenges. Pitfalls and
delays along the route to market can be avoided if previous experience and advice are close at
hand. Few companies will have all this knowledge and expertise in house, few will have one source
to act as a checklist. To meet these needs, and to make a range of general knowledge and
experience available to anyone with access to the Internet, Fast Trak has developed the
BioProcessTM Guide together with L&K Biosciences. This is a knowledge tool that provides a
structured approach to protein-based drug development as well as a general description of the drug
development process. As such, it acts as a platform for decision-making and for in-house guidelines.
The BioProcess Guide, which is regularly updated, currently comprises the
following sections:
Drug development strategy
Protein stability
Process design upstream
Process design downstream
Quality control
Quality assurance
Documentation
Outsourcing
Documents in each category not only give a thorough description on the subject, but also contain
links to relevant web sites, to regulatory web sites such as International Conference on
Harmonization (ICH), suggestions for a documentation program, abbreviations used, a dictionary,
and literature references to peer-reviewed articles and to useful books. A direct link to PubMed
assures easy access to abstracts, and in some cases free downloads of articles.
The web-based concept takes advantage of including relevant information directly available from
the Internet, making the database a portal for bio-industrial information search.
Go to www.bioprocessguide.com for more information and a demonstration.
For more details about Fast Trak Services, contact your local representative or visit
www.bioprocess.amershambiosciences.com
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