Getting all the information from all clinical trials will probably spur some great data mining efforts, on a much broader scale than what has been done so far. For example, a former colleague of mine used the correlation of published drug side effects between different drugs [1] to predict potential alternative therapeutic targets.
Getting all the data on drug efficacy, availability, correlate it with chemical structure, combine it with the information on other drugs could potentially help us a lot in predicting better working future drugs and the workings of existing drugs.
Also, transparency. No more picking out those trials that worked and conveniently forgetting about those that did not work.
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Getting all the information from all clinical trials will probably spur some great data mining efforts, on a much broader scale than what has been done so far. For example, a former colleague of mine used the correlation of published drug side effects between different drugs [1] to predict potential alternative therapeutic targets.
Getting all the data on drug efficacy, availability, correlate it with chemical structure, combine it with the information on other drugs could potentially help us a lot in predicting better working future drugs and the workings of existing drugs.
Also, transparency. No more picking out those trials that worked and conveniently forgetting about those that did not work.
[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5886/263.abstract