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How grit supports open science drug discovery teams


November 21, 2025

Open science in drug discovery is gaining momentum, and for good reason - when knowledge is shared, research accelerates. It also seems that funding bodies of international research programmes more ...

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November 05, 2025 • 3 min read
Your pipeline is multimodal. So why isn’t your data management platform?

Drug discovery is no longer a single-modality game. What once looked like a world dominated by small molecules has evolved into a landscape where antisense oligos, siRNA, peptides, antibodies, etc., coexist in the same pipelines.

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August 12, 2025 • 1 min read
Using vocabularies to enforce data consistency

Research data is a valuable asset, and ensuring it is findable and accessible to other scientists is, of course, key to maximising its value. However, this alone is not enough. You also need to ensure that it's interoperable and reusable, meaning others can easily understand and use the data.

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June 30, 2025 • 2 min read
A smoother way to upload data to your data store

Most people can see the value of a central database with FAIR data that can be accessed across departments and organisations. It creates the best foundation for an efficient drug discovery process and ultimately increases the chances of getting new medicines to market faster. But while agreeing on ...
May 21, 2025 • 2 min read
Two weeks into going open source - what did we learn so far?

We are now two weeks into our new open source grit endeavour. So, what happened after the big launch day? When you spend a lot of time preparing for launching or, in this case, opening, it's always a bit scary. And one is naturally excited to see what will happen. If anything. That would be the ...

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May 05, 2025 • 1 min read
Launch day: The open source version of grit is now live

In October, we decided to turn our business upside down and offer our main product, the scientific data management platform grit, for free and as open source.

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March 31, 2025 • 7 min read
Open source: The benefits, the drawbacks and the things to consider

At grit42, we have decided to change direction and offer our Scientific Data Management Platform, grit, as open source. We have done so, because we believe it can prove valuable to both a broad range of pharma and biotech companies as well as academic institutions. We have, ourselves, benefited ...

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March 24, 2025 • 2 min read
We’re launching our open source platform with a brand-new data model

Sometimes doing things right takes a bit of time. Since we made the decision to open source our grit Scientific Data Management Platform, we've been itching to get the new version ready so that we could offer it to the many people who have fortunately shown interest in it. At the same time, ...

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January 28, 2025 • 2 min read
How open source software can support sustainability in research projects

Sustainability in public-private partnership research projects is typically as challenging as it is important, and often, the software or database used in the projects plays a key role.
January 21, 2025 • 2 min read
First VICT3R paper: grit42’s database a core part of the project

The VICT3R project aims to replace the use of live animal control groups in animal studies with Virtual Control Groups based on high-quality historical control data.

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December 02, 2024 • 2 min read
Software selling is broken

It feels like we all took a wrong turn somewhere.

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November 11, 2024 • 2 min read
Overwhelming interest in our open source platform

It’s been a week since we announced that we will start offering our scientific data management platform, grit, free and open source. And the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

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November 01, 2024 • 2 min read
We have decided to offer our platform as open source. Here’s why.

Our main product, the grit Scientific Data Management Platform, is about to change. We decided to stop selling the platform on a traditional software license and instead offer it free of charge as open source under a GPL license. Let me share some of the reasoning behind this move. Since the ...

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September 25, 2024 • 1 min read
How to stay in control of capacity when planning animal studies

Data scientist: "Do we have room to start an in vivo study with 50 animals in 3 weeks?" Vet: "Well, that depends…" A conversation about animal capacity could very well go something like that when research labs are trying to figure out when and how to start up new animal studies. Because it always ...

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September 16, 2024 • 1 min read
grit42 receives DKK 13.5M to reduce animal use in toxicology studies

grit42 plays a key role in the EU project VICT3R, launched today to reduce the need for animals in medical research. The aim is to replace live animals with virtual control groups that can be used for nonclinical drug and chemical safety evaluation.

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August 16, 2024 • 3 min read
How to prevent your external CRO data from creating a mess

Keeping track of internal research data in a drug discovery organisation so that the data is stored in accessible formats and named so that others than the data producer can find, understand and use it can be challenging enough.

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July 02, 2024 • 2 min read
How to create alignment and maintain innovation in drug discovery

There's no point in trying to hide it: Aligning processes and integrating tools in a drug discovery organisation is often a bit of a hassle. It requires resources and discipline, which is why it often doesn't happen.

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June 25, 2024 • 0 min read
A tool for drug discovery project management

This video will give you an introduction to the grit project tool and how this support the drug discovery process.

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June 25, 2024 • 0 min read
grit project as an analysis tool

Learn how you can use grit project as an analysis tool in your drug discovery process.

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June 19, 2024 • 2 min read
From overview to insights: A project tool to support your drug discovery process

In many drug discovery organisations, analysing and evaluating data is a matter of juggling numerous Excel sheets and manually keeping track of the phases of the screening cascade, comparing compounds, and deciding what compounds to move forward. It’s a widely used practice but the drawback is the ...

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June 06, 2024 • 2 min read
Ford

New release - April 2024 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base. This is a "stabilising" release with a number of improvements and bugfixes but no new features. We are cleaning up and preparing for the feature we will be adding in the next release

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May 22, 2024 • 2 min read
Taking the Risk of Manual Mistakes Out of Curve Fitting

The process of curve fitting is a fundamental step in interpreting data in drug discovery, and the process may seem straightforward:

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April 23, 2024 • 2 min read
The most important benefits of scientific data management platforms in drug discovery

In drug discovery, laboratories generate a lot of data from various pieces of equipment and data systems. Often this data is formatted for a specific use case making it difficult to use efficiently across systems and teams.

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March 21, 2024 • 3 min read
How to go faster from hypothesis to results in preclinical drug discovery

Speed of progress is an important parameter in drug discovery. Not just because moving fast is by default good but because there are several potential business benefits of executing the research work highly efficiently.

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March 11, 2024 • 0 min read
Intro to gritInVivo

Watch this video for a short introduction to our gritInVivo application.

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March 11, 2024 • 0 min read
A quick intro to gritAnimal

In this video Claus Stie Kallesøe of grit42 introduces the gritAnimal application.

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February 29, 2024 • 4 min read
A guide to finding the best curve fitting tool for your need

Curve fitting is used as the final data analysis step in many plate-based in vitro experiments and is therefore performed several times per week in most research organisations.

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February 26, 2024 • 1 min read
Fenchurch

New release - February 2024 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. This release include the first draft of the Project tool as well as a number of bugfixes and minor improvements

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January 31, 2024 • 3 min read
Why FAIR needs to be a foundational principle in all drug discovery labs

I have been part of the "biopharma data management community" for 25 years and during that period I’ve visited many different labs and seen how they perform their data management - from the smallest academic groups to some of the biggest pharma companies in the world.

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January 18, 2024 • 0 min read
The grit product suite explained

Get an introduction to the individual applications in the grit platform and how they fit together.

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January 09, 2024 • 3 min read
How Excel kills the need for speed in pre-clinical drug discovery

Excel is a lovely tool which I guess we all use for our small private data overviews and analysis. It's been around for so long that most of us by default reach for "the spreadsheet" whenever we need to keep track of numbers in rows and columns.

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December 12, 2023 • 1 min read
Introducing a new suite of “grit” products

It's almost Christmas....but already today - 12/12 - we reveal some goodies from the grit42 lab. We have been a bit silent on the outside as we have been working hard on the inside. The work both focused on the foundation - upgraded and cleaned up the Rails backend and changed front end technology ...

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December 05, 2023 • 1 min read
Effrafax

New release - December 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. This release has seen a lot of changes to the development stack. Mainly ruby and rails have been bumped to the latest releases, ruby 3.1.4 and rails 7.0.8, but also the way we develop has been ...

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December 01, 2023 • 0 min read
Passwords, display settings & API token

In this video you will see how the user can change their password, change the display settings - both colour and density - and create an API token which is needed when working with the API

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December 01, 2023 • 0 min read
Create SAR table from Compounds

In this video, I show you how to create the starting point for a SAR table from a Compound search.

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December 01, 2023 • 0 min read
Sort and filtering of the Compounds

Watch this video to learn how you can sort and filter the compound data as well as manipulate the number and order of the columns.

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November 29, 2023 • 0 min read
Define Your Plate Layout in gritCurveFit

In this video, Claus Stie Kallesøe from grit42 will show you how to easily define your plate layout in gritCurveFit.

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November 29, 2023 • 0 min read
Add Compound Mapping in gritCurveFit

In this video, Claus Stie Kallesøe from grit42 will show you how to add compound mapping in gritCurveFit.

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October 18, 2023 • 1 min read
Eddie

New release - October 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features: Animals Improvements: UI update of the Application grid

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October 18, 2023 • 2 min read
Colin

New release - June 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features Full Invivo plugin with new In life and Samples tabs. The full Invivo plugin will co-exist with the Invivo light plugin as an alternative solution where more in-depth detail is requiered.

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August 30, 2023 • 2 min read
DeepThought

New release - August 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features Plate based curve fitting. New Setup Plugin which allows defining plates, importing plate readers files or manually entering data, controlling the quality of plate data, and calculating ...

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April 06, 2022 • 2 min read
grit42 and its collaborator Fraunhofer are leading the way in the digital fight against AntiMicrobial Resistance

Today Fraunhofer and grit42 announced that their collaboration across multiple AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) projects – funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) – has made significant progress, setting up a FAIR data framework that can utilise knowledge graphs and prepares AMR data for ...

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December 23, 2021 • 1 min read
Merry Christmas from grit42. And Slartibartfast.

We wish all of our customers, partners, family, friends, and designers of Norwegian fjords a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
December 14, 2021 • 2 min read
Contera Pharma selects grit42 for scientific data management

Copenhagen, Denmark — December 14, 2021 — Today grit42 announces that its platform for scientific data management and analysis, has been selected by Contera Pharma, a biotech company developing innovative therapies to treat neurological disorders.

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December 23, 2020 • 1 min read
Merry Christmas from grit42. And Zaphod Beeblebrox.

What a strange year. And what could be more fitting than making a special custom LEGO minifigure of Zaphod Beeblebrox. The character behind the famous words:
January 29, 2020 • 3 min read
ERA4TB, an international consortium to accelerate the development of comprehensive treatments against tuberculosis

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December 17, 2019 • 1 min read
Merry Christmas from grit42. And Marvin.

December 03, 2019 • 3 min read
New IMI project “COMBINE” launched to accelerate the fight against antimicrobial resistance

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November 17, 2019 • 1 min read
Strengthening our commitment to help tackle antimicrobial resistance, we’re joining the BEAM Alliance

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August 27, 2019 • 2 min read
Fraunhofer and grit42 join forces in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance

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August 01, 2019 • 2 min read
The IMI-backed project ‘GNA NOW’ kicks off its battle against antimicrobial resistance

New partnership will advance three antibacterial programmes as part of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public-private European R&D consortium.

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May 23, 2019 • 3 min read
grit42 software supports the global fight against superbugs

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December 18, 2018 • 1 min read
MBRose, specialists in monitoring systems for socially-housed rodents, partners with grit42

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December 06, 2018 • 2 min read
Straight from Magrathea: Our brand new Logistics app

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November 29, 2018 • 1 min read
DK-OPENSCREEN selects grit42’s platform for its compound management and digital laboratory infrastructure

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October 02, 2018 • 2 min read
Faster identification of phenotypes of mutants

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December 18, 2017 • 1 min read
A fantastic year is almost over

2017 has really been a positive year of change for us, here at grit42. After going through a big UX project, we

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December 11, 2017 • 1 min read
The classic startup catch 22: You won’t invest fearing we’re going to die – if you don’t, we will

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November 28, 2017 • 2 min read
grit42 joins the Pistoia Alliance and its quest to realise the full potential of User Experience for life sciences

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November 23, 2017 • 2 min read
What’s the link between pee in a swimming pool and Big Data?

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October 12, 2017 • 1 min read
Strengthening data driven drug discovery research – LEO Pharma partners with grit42

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October 10, 2017 • 2 min read
Today grit42 releases version 2.0 of their pre-clinical drug discovery software platform

After launching the company in 2014 and getting multiple customers on their original platform, grit42 has spent the past year revamping their platform with more features, multiple new apps, as well as a fresh modern user interface developed through numerous user tests together with user experience ...

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September 28, 2017 • 2 min read
“I wish I could spend most of my day copying data from various sources and pasting it into Excel”

…said no scientist ever.

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