A Permissioned Blockchain-based System for Collaborative Drug Discovery

TY - GEN

T1 - A Permissioned Blockchain-based System for Collaborative Drug Discovery

AU - Olsson, Christoffer

AU - Toorani, Mohsen

PY - 2021/2/11

Y1 - 2021/2/11

N2 - Research and development of novel molecular compounds in the pharmaceutical industry can be highly costly. Lack of confidentiality can prevent a product from being patented or commercialized. As an effect, cross-organizational collaboration is virtually non-existent. In this paper, we introduce a blockchain-based solution to the collaborative drug discovery problem so that participants can maintain full ownership of the asset and upload partial information about molecules without revealing the molecule itself. A prototype is also implemented using the blockchain technology Hyperledger Fabric and analyzed from security and performance perspectives. The prototype provides a set of functionalities that makes sure that ownership is maintained, integrity is protected, and critical information remains confidential. From a performance perspective, it provides a good throughput and latency in the order of milliseconds. However, further improvements could be done to the scalability of the syst em.

AB - Research and development of novel molecular compounds in the pharmaceutical industry can be highly costly. Lack of confidentiality can prevent a product from being patented or commercialized. As an effect, cross-organizational collaboration is virtually non-existent. In this paper, we introduce a blockchain-based solution to the collaborative drug discovery problem so that participants can maintain full ownership of the asset and upload partial information about molecules without revealing the molecule itself. A prototype is also implemented using the blockchain technology Hyperledger Fabric and analyzed from security and performance perspectives. The prototype provides a set of functionalities that makes sure that ownership is maintained, integrity is protected, and critical information remains confidential. From a performance perspective, it provides a good throughput and latency in the order of milliseconds. However, further improvements could be done to the scalability of the syst em.

U2 - 10.5220/0010236901210132

DO - 10.5220/0010236901210132

M3 - Paper in conference proceeding

SP - 121

EP - 132

BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP’21)

PB - SciTePress

T2 - 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2021

Y2 - 11 February 2021 through 13 February 2021

ER -