Big Pharma Buys Into Crowdsourcing for Drug Discovery | WIRED

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-07-18

Summary:

"Harding’s approach deviates from the norm in one major way: She doesn’t wait to publish a paper before sharing her results. After each of her experiments, 'we’ll just put that into the public domain so that more people can use our stuff for free,' she says: protocols, the genetic sequences that worked for making proteins, experimental data. She’d even like to share protein samples with interested researchers, as she’s offered on Twitter. All this work is to create a map of huntingtin, 'how all the atoms are connected to each other in three-dimensional space,' Harding says, including potential binding sites for drugs."

Link:

https://www.wired.com/story/big-pharma-buys-into-crowdsourcing-for-drug-discovery/

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Date tagged:

07/18/2017, 21:01

Date published:

07/18/2017, 07:07