Machine generated contents note: Foreword; Preface: the future of drug discovery and health care / Eric Schadt; 1. The art and science of the Drug Discovery Pipeline (DDP) / William T. Loging; 2. Computational approaches to drug target identification / Thomas B. Freeman and Pek Lum; 3. Understanding human disease knowledge through text mining / Raul Rodriguez-Esteban; 4. Integrating translational biomarkers into drug development / Jonathan Phillips; 5. Computational phenotypic assessment of small molecules in drug discovery / William T. Loging and Thomas B. Freeman; 6. Data visualization and the DDP process / Ke Xu; 7. Information visualization - important IT considerations / Telmo Silva; 8. The New Drug Application (NDA) and regulatory approval stages / William T. Loging, Marilyn Lewis, Bryn Williams-Jones and Roy Mansfield; 9. Clinical trial failures and drug repositioning / Mark Crawford and Jeff Handler; Appendix I. Additional knowledge-based analysis approaches / Raul Rodriguez-Esteban; Appendix II. Open source tools and public data sources / Yirong Wang and William T. Loging; Index.