tropicaldiseaseinitiative
jwilbanks | April 22, 2009The Tropical Disease Initiative has released a "kernel" for open source drug discovery. It's been published in both Nature Biotechnology (ugh, subscription required) and in PLoS Neglected and Tropical Diseases (yay, open access fulltext under CC-BY).
I am not steeped enough in the reality of drug discovery to make believable statements about how much this means for those actually on the ground looking for cures. I do know that drug targets are only the first step on a really long road to drugs in patients, and Derek Lowe has written a very informative post on this topic over at In the…