200 million , supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund .

“ This development is a great outcome of our focus on ‘ innovation powered by data and digital ’. Together with our partners at the Acceleration Consortium , we continue to push productivity with digital tools such as BayBE . Merck continues to invest in digital technologies that can disrupt the healthcare , life science and electronics industries ,” said Laura Matz , Chief Science and Technology Officer at Merck .

As society faces ever-growing challenges , we have no time for science as usual . With this software , we can revolutionize the way experiments are designed and conducted .

“ BayBE unites several advanced technologies under one umbrella and focuses on making them useful for industrial purposes . While it already has many internal use cases , we are excited to share it with a wider community through open source . What started out as a cross-sectorial advancement can now become a cross-industrial one ,” Matz said .

BayBE was built jointly across all three business sectors of Merck . It is a general-purpose toolbox

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