Editing Prous Science

{{Short description|Health science publishing company}}
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| fate = Acquired by [[Thomson Reuters]]
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1965}}
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| defunct = {{End date|2007}}
| hq_location_city = [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]]
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'''Prous Science''' was an international [[health science]] [[publishing company]], established in 1965 and headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The company was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2007.

The '''Prous Institute for Biomedical Research''' was founded in 2000 by Dr Josep Prous Jr as a spinoff biotech company of Prous Science.<ref name="keyf">{{cite web|url=http://www.prousresearch.com/AboutUs/Corporate_Key_Facts.aspx|title=Corporate Key Facts|website=ProusResearch.com|accessdate=24 May 2014}}</ref> Dr. J.R. Prous was the CEO and president of Prous Science.Its head offices are located in Barcelona and it has subsidiaries in Philadelphia (United States), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Tokyo (Japan). Its research is based on the use of datamining, statistical analysis and chemoinformatic techniques, a recent and innovative international concept registered under the name "druginformatics". These techniques are complemented by laboratory methods from [[combinatorial chemistry]], molecular biology and functional genomics.

==Science==
The 'Prous Scientific Integrity' data portal was launched in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prous-science-launches-integrityr-the-worlds-first-integrated-drug-discovery-portal-72298217.html|title=Prous Science Launches Integrity(R), the World's First Integrated Drug Discovery Portal|website=PRNewswire.com|date=25 Jun 2001|accessdate=21 May 2014}}</ref> In 2008, Prous pharmacology and drug discovery content was made available through [[Thomson Reuters]] services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/082008/2759891|title=Thomson Reuters Launches New Predictive Pharmacology Module As Part Of Its Prous Science Integrity Platform|website=Thomsonreuters.com|date=28 Aug 2008|accessdate=21 May 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|title=A novel QSAR model of Salmonella mutagenicity and its application in the safety assessment of drug impurities|journal=Toxicol Appl Pharmacol|date= 15 Dec 2013|volume=273|issue=3| pages=427–34| doi= 10.1016/j.taap.2013.09.015}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Cheminformatics]]

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[[Category:Spanish companies established in 1965]]
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