--- title: 'Software Daily Summary: What Happened on October 5, 2026' headline: Pistoia Alliance releases CMC Process Ontology 1.0 description: The ontology is designed to track how manufacturing recipes evolve, with feedback planned for a November workshop in Boston. url: https://thebench.bio/news/software/2026-10-05 topic: software date: '2026-10-05' covers: - '2026-10-05' date_published: '2026-10-05T12:02:37Z' date_modified: '2026-10-05T12:02:37Z' sources: 1 publisher: The Bench (thebench.bio) --- # Software Daily Summary: What Happened on October 5, 2026 **Pistoia Alliance releases CMC Process Ontology 1.0** The ontology is designed to track how manufacturing recipes evolve, with feedback planned for a November workshop in Boston. ## Today in brief The Pistoia Alliance released version 1.0 of an ontology for biopharmaceutical manufacturing recipes, designed to track information as teams refine processes. [1] ## Also worth knowing - The CMC Process Ontology uses existing biopharmaceutical manufacturing terminology and represents information moving both down and up the recipe hierarchy. The Pistoia Alliance plans to discuss feedback at a workshop in Boston on November 12–13. [1] ## The day in numbers - **1.0**: Version of the CMC Process Ontology released by the Pistoia Alliance. [1] - **November 12–13**: Dates of the planned feedback workshop in Boston. [1] ## Also published - [ACT Brief: AI Adoption Starting Points, Hierarchical Endpoints and Patient Priorities, and Early-Stage Program Termination](), Applied Clinical Trials ## Sources 1. [Real recipes don’t always develop the way the standard suggests](), Pistoia Alliance, 2026-10-05 --- The Bench wrote this from the reporting cited above, with a language model drafting and editing. [1]: