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July 11, 2008: Why public health requires open data: A bit of data sharing and networking could prevent a repeat of last winter's catastrophic flu vaccine failure.
July 8, 2008: Interesting article on Open Source Drug Discovery: Could you invent a drug for free? No. It costs on average almost $1 bn to get a new drug launched. Although much of that cost comes from counting all the failures along the way, since for every 150 drug discovery projects that get started only one, makes it to market.
July 8, 2008: A Wiki on genes : In an article published July 8 in PLoS Biology, a group of researchers described their efforts to establish an OA "gene wiki" to collect information on the relationship and function of human genes. See also the description from the PLoS press release
July 4, 2008: Sulston argues for open medicine: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has hit out at what he terms the "moral corruption" of the medical industry.
July 3, 2008: CRDD mailing list: A discussion forum was launched to discuss issue related to "Computational Resources for Drug Discovery".
July 3, 2008: A Wiki on CRDD: A wiki was established at CRDD on "Computational Resources for Drug Discovery" for creating specialized Wikipedia.
July 1, 2008: Computational Resources for Drug Discovery (CRDD): First draft of CRDD site released for public.
June 25, 2008: GSK's Big Bang on open drug discovery: It was unexpected and went almost unnoticed. Last Friday, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline [Get Quote], the world's second largest drug maker, announced in Philadelphia that it was donating an important slice of its research on cancer cells to the cancer research community to boost the collaborative battle against this disease.
April 2008: OSDD Launched. Open Source Drug Discovery launched a web site. www.osdd.org.
April 16, 2008: India takes an Open Source Approach to Drug Discovery (Cell, Vol. 133, 201-203, 18 April 2008) Open source software may have been around for 17 years, but using an open source model to speed up drug discovery is a relatively new idea. This month, India is launching a new open source initiative for developing drugs to treat diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV-AIDS.
March 19, 2008: SPICY IP Interview with Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari: We aim to increase transparency in Indian intellectual property policy/institutions. We also stand for fair, objective and accurate reporting/review of intellectual property and innovation policy news from India.
