The TriMark Publications "Sector Snapshot" is designed to provide a high-level overview of a particular market sector, including key players, sales data and emerging trends. This sector snapshot covers the outsourcing of drug discovery (ODD) services. Outsourcing is now an essential part of drug discovery. Smaller vendors rely on outsourcing revenues to pay their bills and boost their credibility. This snapshot also details major groups of ODD market, total sector revenue of contract drug discovery market, and fundamental issues regarding ODD.