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A pharmacology expert composes a knowledge service that takes the virus family and a database of anti-viral drugs, and suggests the best one to use against the new bug.

These red circles, and thousands more like them, represent knowledge services. Most will be created by scientists for their own use, and then made available for others to build on. Collectively they will transform how science is done.

Knowledge services are already impacting how drugs are developed (and not just for bio-emergencies). Increasingly, drugs are developed collaboratively by academic researchers, biotech scientists and big pharma marketers, supported by a vast ecosystem of third party services - combinatorial chemistry, toxicity assays, proteomic analyses, clinical trials management, and so forth. Knowledge services help facilitate the sharing of information and expertise, the allocation of resources and the coordination of workflows across organizations.