ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Drug discovery in academia and industry poses contrasting challenges. While academia focuses on producing new knowledge, industry is keen on product development and success in clinical trials. Galaxy is a web-based open-source computational workbench which is used to analyze large datasets and is customized to integrate analysis and visualization tools in a single framework. Depending on the methodology, one can generate customized and suitable workflows in the Galaxy platform. AREAS COVERED: Herein, the authors appraise the suitability of the Galaxy platform for developing a disease specific web portal called the Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS). The authors include their future perspectives in the expert opinion section. EXPERT OPINION: Galaxy is ideally suited for community-based software development as the scripts, tools, and codes developed in the different programming languages can be integrated in an extremely efficient fashion. MPDS puts forth a new approach known as a disease-specific web portal which aims to implement a range of computational methods and algorithms that can be developed and shared freely across the community of computer aided drug design (CADD) scientists.
