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[News] Intellectual Monopolies No Longer the Way for Pharmas

  • Subject: [News] Intellectual Monopolies No Longer the Way for Pharmas
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:18:29 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open Lab

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| The open source wave could soon power drug discovery initiatives in the 
| country. A decentralised, web-based initiative is emerging that would enable 
| scientists from laboratories, universities, institutes, and drug Companies to 
| work together in discovering new drugs for diseases like tuberculosis (TB), 
| malaria, various types of cancer, AIDS, Chikungunya, Kala-azar, dengue fever, 
| etc.      
`----

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Open-Lab/279490/

So much for intellectual monopolies. Here is how it can be done better:

Fear and Loathing in Open Source Marketing

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| So far Drupal has benefited from the most powerful software development, 
| distribution, and marketing mechanisms today. That looks something like this: 
| 
|    1. Develop a good free product
|    2. Grow a community around that product
|    3. Achieve wide spread adoption and brand recognition
|    4. Find complimentary, not antagonistic, ways to monetize this success 
|       which is their next step 
| 
| This formula is what has worked for Red Hat, MySQL, and all indications show 
| that it’s working for companies like SugarCRM and Alfresco.   
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http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/01/fear-and-loathing-in-open-source-marketing/


Related:

Open-source model for drug discovery?

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| Significant public funding along with the ability for private enterprise to 
| benefit from the open source approach will result in a strong public-private 
| partnership and ensure success of the open source approach.  
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Debates/Open-source_model_for_drug_discovery/articleshow/2651121.cms


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


'Open source' urged for TB drug design effort

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| One of India's top genetics researchers has called for a global, 
| collaborative effort to design a new tuberculosis (TB) drug using an 'open 
| source' approach.  
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http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=4082&language=1


Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model

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| Software is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study 
| and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the 
| concept of open source. Advocates in one field will often support the 
| expansion of open source in other fields, including Linus Torvalds who is 
| quoted as saying, "the future is open source everything."    
`----

http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/


Open source synthetic biology

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| Not everyone within synthetic biology takes the open-source approach, Andrew 
| Hessel, an iGEM consultant who recruits teams from Canadian universities, 
| told me, but the driving force behind it is iGEM and MIT (Rettberg works with 
| renowned hacker-turned-synthetic biologist Tom Knight). Hessel likened the 
| atmosphere to the time when computers were first becoming cheap enough to be 
| affordable by anyone who wanted one, and young, bright kids began to play 
| around with code.       
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http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53822/


Biology Goes Open Source

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| Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that
| their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
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http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.html?partner=rss
http://tinyurl.com/2vqssl


Pharmac publishes directly with open source

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| The team used Python, libxml/libxslt and TeX, running on Debian GNU/Linux, 
| and the open document standards TeX, XML, MathML, XHTML, and Xlink, says 
| Geering.   
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/25F72F231ABF8F5ACC2573630083A579


Red Hat scores Swedish pharmacy contract

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| Apoteket, the pharmacy network, will convert to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
| running on Intel hardware, Red Hat said. Financial terms of the deal were not 
| disclosed.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522057.html?.v=1


Open Source Research -- the Power of Us

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| Open source methods have delivered tangible benefits in the computer
| science community. We describe here efforts to extend these principles
| to science generally, and in particular biomedical research. Open
| source research holds great promise for solving complex problems in
| areas where profit-driven research is seen to have failed. We
| illustrate this with a specific problem in organic chemistry that
| we think will be solved substantially faster with an open
| source approach.
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http://www.publish.csiro.au/view/journals/dsp_journal_fulltext.cfm?nid=51&f=CH06095


Our Biotech Future [is Open Source]

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| Open Source biology could be a powerful tool, giving us access to 
| cheap and abundant solar energy.
`----

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20370


Open-Source Drug Safety?

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| More than a million Americans take Avandia every year; the risk
| Glaxo had found would mean thousands of extra heart attacks. But
| the company argued that the risk only occurred in patients who
| already had serious heart problems, and that it didn't show up
| in long-term clinical trials. The FDA made no decision, and no 
| public statement.
| 
| [...]
| 
| It's an open source approach to drug safety.
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http://www.forbes.com/home/sciencesandmedicine/2007/05/21/fda-glaxo-avandia-biz-sci_cx_mh_0522fda.html


Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model 

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| "Open source" as applied to culture defines a culture in which
| intellectual property is made generally available. Participants
| in such a culture are able to improve and modify those products
| and redistribute them back into the community.
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http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/


Thailand fed up with high drug prices - minister

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| "We have thought about this for more than five years. It's long enough,"
| said Mongkol na Songkhla, who is leading one of the biggest challenges to
| Big Pharma's patent rights in years. 
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/19/worldupdates/2007-02-19T014311Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-288239-1&sec=worldupdates

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