Open-source pharmacy.... A new step towards drug development...

[vkritan]

A decade ago, the Linux operating system helped spark a revolution in how software is developed. A move by GlaxoSmithKline PLC could test how well similar open-source principles work for developing new drugs.

The pharmaceutical giant last week opened to the public the designs behind 13,500 chemical compounds that it said may be capable of inhibiting the parasite that causes malaria.

Glaxo and others hope that sharing information and working together will lead scientists to come up with a drug for treating the mosquito-borne disease faster than the company could on its own. Other researchers "may look at these structures in quite a different way and see something that we don't," said Nick Cammack, head of Glaxo's Medicines Development Campus in Spain.



GlaxoSmithKline
Two government websites and one private site will host Glaxo's data. Above, containers used by Glaxo researchers to test the effect that chemical compounds have on the malaria parasite.

The move is one of the largest experiments yet by the pharmaceutical industry to apply techniques of open-source development to drug discovery, based on the idea that collaboration by volunteers will create products that aren't owned by a single company.

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[goldflake]

ee visayam naku peddaga artam kavadam ledu kani mavadu GSK lo ne panichestunadu ragane adigi kanukunta

[vkritan]

[quote author=goldflake link=topic=70530.msg750531#msg750531 date=1274906212]
ee visayam naku peddaga artam kavadam ledu kani mavadu GSK lo ne panichestunadu ragane adigi kanukunta
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naku ardham ayindhi enti ante... research details lantivi vallu public ki release chestharu... so that more scientists can work together to develop  a cure...

[bheemboybheemboy]

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