ODDT - open drug discovery teams for collaboration

Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) is an app in alpha and is described as “an open science content aggregator for topics such as rare/neglected diseases and precompetitive research. It is being designed and developed by Sean Ekins of Collaborations in Chemistry and Alex M. Clark of Molecular Materials Informatics. The app is currently in the alpha phase of development, and is available by request. When the beta phase is ready, it will be made available to the public as a freely downloadable app for all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod and iPad). The slideshare, linked above, provides an “Illustration of genesis and development so far.” According to the developers, “the project is intended to [1] bring together open data in a single aggregated collection and then facilitate forming open research teams around this data, [2] disseminate important information to a highly relevant target audience [3] [allow researchers to] network and discover other researchers with complementary interests and [provide] opportunities to collaborate, [4] allow team members] to borrow and reuse a growing collection of existing open data [5] [provide an opportunity for] the community as a whole [to] debate, contest, or endorse data based on its quality, [6][use the app] as a type of “lab notebook” whereby individual researchers share links (URLs) to content and the app aggregates these.”