New Challenges for Information Technologies in Medicine: Big Data Analysis?

The first aim of the paper is to investigate whether the very promising method of data analysis (the Big Data Analysis, further called BDA) - used now across various domains - can serve for information technologies in medicine, in the area of planning pathways of organic syntheses. The eventual usage of BDA in the field stated is meant within a speculation - synthesis of new drugs. Therefore characteristic features of BDA are here briefly discussed; they are commonly marked by (five) letters V, coming from the following concepts: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, Value. In the research performed it was found that BDA unfortunately seems to have rather restricted applicability in planning of chemical compounds; rather we have to focus in details of a single, chosen reaction. Therefore in a second part of the paper - in its core the Achmatowicz reaction is selected to expose the required ingenuity in organic synthesis. As a pattern for discussion, the structure of Bao Gong Tung A molecule, a novel natural product showing strong antiglaucoma properties, was fixed.