The wetlab
side of things would be best done in collaboration with Universities or other
organisations (NGO's, Corps etc.) that have a shared interest in developing the
drugs. For example, in the U.K. I know there are several organisations that will
fund projects like TDI or offshoots of TDI e.g. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/ one
of the criteria is that a university is a partner, I believe the universities
can be anywhere in the EU. There is no reason why the university could not
provide wet lab facilities while the bioinformatics and other software tools and
research could not be done by the rest of the TDI community. Failing that 3rd
party sponsorship could enable such facilities to be
rented.
With regards
to storing data, if there are no suitable XML schemas for holding structured
data it is not too tricky to devise one that can be used by most of the
community. Any data that is unstructured or unsuitable for storage in a
well-defined XML schema then using tools such as Lucene could index the data and
make it readily searchable. Most of these issues have been addressed by other
projects already and the solutions are well documented.
Regards,
Jake
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