Supplier Mix Of Bioinformatics Service Providers

Question

[mathini.ilancheran]

Looking into the supplier mix of Bioinformatics Service Providers, they can be broadly divided into 4 categories

1. Specialized Service Providers (Who only provide Data Analysis services)
2. Vertically Integrated Service Providers (Data Analysis & Software as a service provider)
3. Horizontally Integrated Service Providers (Sequencing service to sequence data analysis service providers)
4. Drug Discovery Informatics Service providers ( Bioinformatics + Cheminformatics service)

In your opinion, what would be the right mix of these providers to ensure that the highest efficiency and innovation is harnessed?

1. Specialized Service Providers (%) -
2. Vertically Integrated Service Providers (%) -
3. Horizontally Integrated Service Providers (%) -
4. Drug Discovery Informatics Service providers (%) -

[Niallhaslam]

This appears to be market research rather than a bioinformatics problem.

[Istvan Albert]

I don't disagree with your sentiment but I do disagree with this warranting a closure. That should be reserved to questions that cannot possibly provide any useful content - whereas here this does not seem to be the case.