GLOBAL was a language

Language

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 developed in industry

Industry

Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...

 and sold off privately as an expert system

System

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. It was used to design several biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs produced using biotechnology. They include proteins , nucleic acids and living microorganisms like virus and bacteria where the virulence of viruses and bacteria is reduced by the process of attenuation, they can be used for therapeutic or in vivo diagnostic...

 products, and sold to Tularik (Amgen).

Prometheus used for drug

Drug

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system design was written using GLOBAL and is described on this [ftp://ftp.cray.com/applications/dir_apps_software/CHEMISTRY/PROMETHEUS.txt Cray software specification].