“…Even though pharmaceutical companies relatively survived the recession phase of the early twenty-first century, a significant amount of budget cuts in R&D and new drug development pipeline was evident [26]. Post-recession, in the course of recovery, the collaborative efforts of the pharmaceutical and IT industry have brought state-of-the-art analytical tools that can pull multifaceted data in large quantities and predict the patients' needs and market trends [27]. This has enabled the pharmaceutical companies to reorganize the drug discovery and development programs in a more efficient and cost-effective way.…”