[ExI] India's open source drug discovery

[Bryan Bishop]

Joseph was telling me that India understood ..

http://osdd.net/

> OSDD is a CSIR Team India Consortium with Global Partnership with a
> vision to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world by
> providing a global platform where the best minds can collaborate &
> collectively endeavor to solve the complex problems associated with
> discovering novel therapies for neglected tropical diseases like
> Malaria, Tuberculosis, Leshmaniasis, etc. It is a concept to
> collaboratively aggregate the biological and genetic information
> available to scientists in order to use it to hasten the discovery of
> drugs. This will provide a unique opportunity for scientists,
> doctors, technocrats, students and others with diverse expertise to
> work for a common cause.
>
>  The success of Open Source models in Information Technology (For
> e.g., Web Technology, The Linux Operating System) and Biotechnology
> (For e.g., Human Genome Sequencing) sectors highlights the urgent
> need to initiate a similar model in healthcare, i.e., an Open Source
> model for Drug Discovery.
>
>  Funding source - Th Government of India has committed Rs. 150 crores
> (US $38 million) towards this project. An equivalent amount of
> funding would be raised from inernational agencies and
> philanthropists. About 46 crores (US $12 million) has been already
> released by the Government of India.

Hey look, somebody understands! :) It hit slashdot today.

- Bryan
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