Open Source Drugs: the first Collaborative Drug Discovery meeting

Collaborative Drug Discovery enables scientists to collaborate to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets using a customizable, web-based database tool (not Open Source).They held the first annual meeting on the 5th of March.

collaborationImage excerpt from CDD web site

An open-source approach to disease and drug research.

CDD’s goal is to help scientists optimally select and advance novel drug discovery candidates.

This is accomplished via:

  • A highly-networked virtual drug discovery and development community
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  • Scientists can securely collaborate with their drug discovery data, information, knowledge and intellectual property
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  • Build deep technical collaborations to help researchers advance the most promising drug discovery assets

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