A kernel for open source drug discovery in tropical diseases.

• Main Authors: Leticia Ortí (Author), Rodrigo J Carbajo (Author), Ursula Pieper (Author), Narayanan Eswar (Author), Stephen M Maurer (Author), Arti K Rai (Author), Ginger Taylor (Author), Matthew H Todd (Author), Antonio Pineda-Lucena (Author), Andrej Sali (Author), Marc A Marti-Renom (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Conventional patent-based drug development incentives work badly for the developing world, where commercial markets are usually small to non-existent. For this reason, the past decade has seen extensive experimentation with alternative R&D institutions ranging from private-public partnerships to...