Clinical trials are the backbone of medical progress, but navigating their design and execution can be complex. Fast Data Science is dedicated to helping researchers by analysing clinical trial protocols through the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP).
We are presenting a selection of software which can be used for clinical trial protocol analysis or clinical trial cost prediction, forecasting, and risk assessment.
Fast Data Science’s Clinical Trial Risk Tool (https://clinicaltrialrisk.org/tool) allows researchers to upload a protocol as a PDF, and it uses an AI model to estimate the risk of the trial ending uninformatively which makes it a go-to clinical trial strategy software for many companies.
The Clinical Trial Risk Tool is free to use for pathologies in an international development context such as HIV and TB, Enteric and diarrheal diseases, Influenza, Neglected tropical diseases, COVID, Malaria, and Polio. For trials in Oncology, Motor neurone disease, Multiple sclerosis, Cystic fibrosis, and other pathologies, it will be available on a subscription basis.
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You can read more on our website about how the Clinical Trial Risk Tool works. The clinical trial protocol software tool was a winner of the Plotly Dash Apps Challenge and has been published and peer-reviewed in Gates Open Research and featured in the industry publication Clinical Leader.
This web-based clinical trial software platform facilitates the creation, management, and registration of high-quality protocols, particularly beneficial for researchers in low-resource settings (access through The Global Health Network: https://edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-development/septre-protocol-tool/)
This SaaS platform targets the financial aspects of clinical trials, assisting biopharmaceutical companies, CROs, and service providers with budgeting, proposal development, and vendor management (https://strategikonpharma.com/clinical-maestro-2/)
SoftFormance provides tools for planning, managing, and tracking clinical study data, promoting efficiency and transparency throughout the research process (https://www.softformance.com/industries/software-for-clinical-trials/).
Gotrial CLINICA is a cloud-based data platform which integrates complex clinical development datasets such as clinical trial data, regulatory approvals, disease or hospital data - amongst others. Find CLINICA at https://www.gotrial.com/#clinica.
TrialPro is a free clinical trial software that allows you to import PDF protocols and analyses them on a cloud platform. You can create an account and try the tool for free at https://www.trialpro.ai/.
The Clinical Trial Participant Financial Burden Calculator is clinical trial financial management software designed to help potential clinical research participants/ patients better understand and estimate the financial impact and burden of participation. It doesn’t analyse protocols directly like our budgeting and financial modeling software, but you will need to enter the information about the trial manually. Find it at https://trialvalue-burdencalculator.com/.
OpentronsAI uses an interface powered by Generative AI and LLMs, so that scientists can describe experimental protocols in plain language, and OpentronsAI interprets and generates corresponding automated protocol scripts intelligently. Find it at https://opentrons.com/ai.
The Shiny CRT Calculator doesn’t analyse protocols directly but it serves as a tool to calculate power and sample sizes for Cluster Randomised Trials. Find it at https://clusterrcts.shinyapps.io/rshinyapp/.
A number of software tools exist for clinical trial data management.
The best clinical trial protocol analysis software for your research depends on your specific goals. Whether it’s risk assessment, or financial and capacity planning, a dedicated tool can significantly streamline your workflow.
Fast Data Science is committed to expanding our NLP capabilities to new disease areas. Stay tuned for future updates as we strive to empower researchers across a wider range of clinical trials!
Estimating the total cost of a clinical trial before it runs is challenging. Public data on past trial costs can be hard to come by, as many companies guard this information carefully. Trials in high income countries and low and middle income countries have very different costs. Clinical trial costs are not normally distributed.[1] I took a dataset of just over 10,000 US-funded trials. You can see that the range is huge, from small device or behavioural trials costing as little as $50,000, while large multi-centre international trials can cost hundreds of millions.
Guest post by Safeer Khan, Lecturer at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan Introduction The success of clinical studies relies heavily on proper financial planning and budgeting. These processes directly impact key factors such as project timelines, resource allocation, and compliance with regulatory requirements. The accurate forecasting of costs for clinical trials, however, is a highly complex and resource-intensive process. A study by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development found that the average cost of developing a new drug is approximately $2.
Guest post by Safeer Khan, Lecturer at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan Introduction Recent years have seen a substantial rise in oncology clinical trials, with annual growth exceeding 260 studies on average [1]. Despite this increase, these studies continue to be some of the most demanding and resource-intensive in clinical research. The combination of intensive monitoring, detailed assessment schedules, and highly specific eligibility criteria creates substantial operational challenges.
