Outside‐In Systems Pharmacology Combines Innovative Computational Methods With High‐Throughput Whole Vertebrate Studies

To advance the systems approach in pharmacology, experimental models and computational methods need to be integrated from early drug discovery onward. Here, we propose outside‐in model development, a model identification technique to understand and predict the dynamics of a system without requiring prior biological and/or pharmacological knowledge. The advanced data required could be obtained by whole vertebrate, high‐throughput, low‐resource dose‐exposure‐effect experimentation with the zebrafish larva. Combinations of these innovative techniques could improve early drug discovery.

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