RE: Format for submission to FDA
All,
I would also be very interested in your responses. Recently, we've attempted
to submit a Berkeley Madonna file as part of a submission, and that file type
has caused some problems. While it is possible to take the BM code out as a
flat .txt and the embedded data set out as a .csv or .xls (or even .xpt, I
suppose), I questioned the utility of that. "Reconstituting" the analysis from
the components might be possible here, but it's error prone and, frankly,
inefficient.
In the end, we were able to simple embed the BM file (extension .mmd) into the
eCTD format and send it along. Someone without the BM tool installed on their
computer would receive a puzzled response from their web browser when trying to
open the file. However, someone with the tool installed is able to correctly
open the BM file.
Again, comments from our regulatory colleagues would be very helpful here. How
can we package and transport complex analysis (my example was single BM file,
Dennis suggests a series of NONMEM runs in a file structure) and share that
with regulatory bodies?
Regards,
Mike Dodds
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dennis Fisher
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NMusers] Format for submission to FDA
Colleagues,
One of my clients is approaching submission of an NDA to FDA. I did
the pop PK analysis; the files that I generated are in three formats -
text, PDF, and csv. NONMEM text output is saved in two formats (text
and PDF); NONMEM tables are saved in two formats (text and csv);
graphics created in R are saved in PDF format. Datasets used for each
step of the analysis are archived in two formats, text (an exact copy
of the input file plus an exact copy of the FDATA file) and csv (the
FDATA file formatted as csv).
Our plan (based on my other recent submissions to FDA, none of which
has elicited any complaints from them), was to submit these documents
in the formats described above. However, my client received a request
from FDA that:
"datasets [used in the analysis] should be submitted as SAS transport
(*.xpt) files".
In addition, the company managing the submission wants to convert all
my other csv files to xpt format (although there was no specific
request for this).
Can anyone (particularly anyone at FDA) clarify this for me? In that
NONMEM will not accept .xpt files, I am surprised that FDA would want
datasets in that format. Should my client honor the request or should
they explain to the project manager that NONMEM requires text files so
we plan to submit these files in text format (either .txt or csv).
Thanks for any insights on this.
Dennis
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