Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Design Tracker: an easy to use and
fl exible hypothesis tracking system
to aid project team working
Craig Bruce and Martin Harrison
Abstract:
Design Tracker is a hypothesis tracking system used across
all sites and research areas in AstraZeneca by the global chemistry
community. It is built on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/
Python) software stack, which started as a single server and has
now progressed to a six-server cluster running cutting-edge high
availability software and hardware. This chapter describes how a
local tool was developed into a global production system.
Key words:
MediaWiki; Python; Django; MySQL; Apache; Nginx;
high availability; failover.
12.1 Overview
Process management systems and software are now used across many
industries to capture, integrate and share pertinent data for a given
process. Given the increase in the quantity of data available to project
teams in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the drive to improve
productivity and reduce timelines, new approaches and solutions are
needed to help the project scientists manage, capture, view and share
data across the design - make - test - analyse (DMTA) cycle.
Here, we describe Design Tracker and its software stack that specifi cally
manages some of the various processes that occur in the DMTA cycle [1].
The software allows the tracking of design ideas (hypotheses) and
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