Case Study: Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute achieves safer, more effective drug development with Rogue Wave Software

Pharmaceutical Giant Uses PV-WAVE® to Help Develop Safer, Stronger Medicines

Bristol-Myers Squibbc Pharmaceutical Research Institute uses Rogue Wave Software's PV-WAVE visual data analysis software alongside MRI to tackle the challenge of studying drug behavior in complex tissues. Researchers face multi-gigabyte MRI experiments and need a highly interactive, flexible analysis environment to visualize, explore and quantify how candidate drugs act in the body while ensuring safety and efficacy.

Rogue Wave Software's PV-WAVE was deployed on workstations to read large MRI datasets, rapidly display images, and support interactive manipulation (color tables, contour plots), ROI selection and advanced analysis (FFTs, curve fits) and hard-copy/TIFF/PostScript output. The solution let researchers handle experiments that exceed four gigabytes, develop custom procedures quickly, and speed analysis—leveraging IMSL libraries that can cut development time by up to 95%—helping the institute design safer, more effective medicines.

Bristol-Myers Squibbc Pharmaceutical Research Institute

Ron Behling

Researcher