The new age of computational drug discovery

What is needed to design a new drug? Pathological pathways and structures of involved proteins are essential. Solving protein structures is one of the oldest problems in biological sciences and typically involves expensive experiments and much trial and error. For over 50 years, researchers have attempted to build computational models that could predict protein structures […]

Implementing the Allotrope framework at Biotechs

In the October 7th webinar titled “Implementing the Allotrope framework at Biotechs”, Monica Berrondo, CEO of MacroMoltek, and Dennis Della Corte, CSO of ZONTAL, offered a look at a case study between the two companies. This project used ZONTAL as an Allotrope Framework-based data management hub, enabling the use of machine learning techniques for data science. […]

Making the digital lab a reality at Novartis with ZONTAL

During their presentation at the 2020 Fall Allotrope Connect Conference, titled “Making the digital lab a reality at Novartis with ZONTAL”, Novartis shared the results of their recent FAIR data strategy, which used advanced data collection and analytics to enable scientists to maintain their focus on science. Novartis incorporated ZONTAL, powered by the Allotrope Data Format, as […]

How BYU Library adopted a FAIR data hub

During the summer of 2019, BYU Harold B. Lee library teamed up with ZONTAL, Inc. to see if technology developed for the Pharma market could revolutionize how libraries are currently managing their data.   Intrigued by the Allotrope Data Format and its possibility to store metadata as well as content data in one vendor agnostic […]

The Information Life Cycle

There are few topics that can create as much confusion as the Data Life Cycle flood of contradicting content online.  The goal of this post is to help you learn how data actually matures through its existence, and how you can turn this knowledge into processes that enable your data to grow from an infant obligation […]

How stakeholder’s interests lead to a data driven business

Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business. (https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/digitalization) Never before has the benefit of digital businesses become as relevant as in the current pandemic crisis. While local grocers, hospitals, and traditional manufacturing are […]

Release Update: ZONTAL Space 2.2.6

ZONTAL Space 2.2.6 is here, ready to manage your data under the most intricate demands. Large enterprises find themselves frequently forced to setup multiple instances of the same solution in a variety of countries and regions. The main reasons are local legislator’s requirements such as GDPR or restricted health care records. ZONTAL Space was designed […]

ZONTAL Space 2.2.6 is here, ready to manage your data under the most intricate demands. Large enterprises find themselves frequently forced to setup multiple instances of the same solution in a variety of countries and regions. The main reasons are local legislator’s requirements such as GDPR or restricted health care records. ZONTAL Space was designed to give customers a single holistic enterprise solution. This most recent release enables you to not only comply with arbitrary legislators, but also with corporate policies and the plethora of regulatory agencies.

Download our whitepaper on data centricity.

We commonly find ourselves in a situation where regulations and security needs have to be balanced with a system’s performance and features. Depending on your data, you might want to either store them protected in your on-premises secure data zone or share them through the cloud with your collaborators, like contract research organizations. A key technology that enables this variety of use cases is Kubernetes. With Kubernetes, ZONTAL Space can be deployed on any infrastructure, for example a combination of on-premise and cloud solutions. These hybrid clouds allow for storage options to be tuned precisely to local needs. While your manufacturing site might require instant updates to be published, your compound library might need to reside under highest security standards. With Kubernetes, ZONTAL Space is able to manage both use cases simultaneously; within one instance.

Another common problem with scale is performance. A previous ZONTAL Space release introduced Elastic Search as a high performant search engine. However, it is one thing to find data fast and another to access the data in a reasonable manner. Using granulated storage setup and background data protocols, ZONTAL Space now ensures that your data is available where it is most needed while providing fast access for your downstream processing.

What happens, if your system collapses? With Kubernetes, ZONTAL Space is now delivering true elastic scale and full failure resilience. It instantly springs back into action through automatic recovery protocols. No need to wake your application manager in the middle of the night.