Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open source drug discovery
>
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>| The idea, taking off from successful open source models such as the human
>| genome sequencing initiative, is very simple. All the relevant data and
>| accumulated intelligence on a particular disease, tuberculosis to begin with,
>| would be hosted online.
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>
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Editorials/Open_source_drug_discovery/articleshow/2639296.cms
>
This should help bring medicines within the reach of far more people,
should speed development of drugs and treatments, and provide
opportunities for smaller research companies to compete on a more level
playing field with the larger ones. It will also serve to share the
cost of drugs development across a much wider community, so the
development of the next generation of drugs will be less dependent on
stock-market performances, and more dependent on the creativity and
investigative capabilities of research and development scientists and
production engineers.
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