I believe the biggest reason is the lack of embracing software in the process. You still have people standing around in front of beakers and petridish. You are

I believe the biggest reason is the lack of embracing software in the process. You still have people standing around in front of beakers and petridish. You are using the same darn rigid rules from 18th century. This is why progress is so slow. Imagine if you opened up the vast knowledge of drugs and creating new drug and testing it was as easy as writing a program, it would do wonders. Software is not eating up the world in this slice of the market.