{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-03T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-03T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:36:16","slug":"new-open-source-era-for-better-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/new-open-source-era-for-better-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;new open source era &#8230; for better drugs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we learn from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2009\/03\/02\/harnessing-the-crowd-to-make-better-drugs-mercks-stephen-friend-nails-down-5m-to-propel-biology-into-open-source-era\/\" target=\"_blank\">rather poorly written article over at xconomy<\/a>, &#8220;Biology has never really had a social-networking movement like open-source computing, where thousands of loosely-affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better software&#8221;. If you translate that into what was needed for biology (or chemistry) according to the xconomy author, it would translate into a &#8220;social-networking movement where thousands of loosely affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better biology&#8221;. Now, I leave it to you extremely bright guys out there to figure out why I think that already exists and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Science\" target=\"_blank\">how it is called<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least, the article informs us about lots of money being pumped into another collaborative effort to exploit systems biology to make better drugs, which might be a good thing. I&#8217;m having a hard time to understand the fundamental difference between this and existing open approaches, but I&#8217;m happy to learn. Part of this lack of understanding comes from a lack of meat in this article. Maybe one of my readers can comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we learn from a rather poorly written article over at xconomy, &#8220;Biology has never really had a social-networking movement like open-source computing, where thousands of loosely-affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better software&#8221;. If you translate that into what was needed for biology (or chemistry) according to the xconomy author, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,25,28,7,27,19,12,29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemoinformatics","category-conferences-and-meetings","category-open-access","category-open-data","category-open-science","category-open-source","category-people","category-publishing","category-scientific-culture","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}