There will be a workshop at Duke to discuss open computational biology for
neglected diseases (i.e., TDI) in May. So the project is visible to funders
and gathering momentum. What it really needs is a detailed biology road
map. What clever and useful tasks can volunteers accomplish by
collaborating on line? Can we imagine a such series of tasks leading to a
list of candidate drugs?
I see this as pretty much like any other grant proposal -- good science is
going to get rewarded, talented people will become leaders. Open source
issues are fun to think about, but good biology will make this work.
steve
At 10:27 AM 3/14/2005 +0000, you wrote:
I concur.
I think it would be useful if an initial task to be agreed so that, those
willing to take part can get on with something useful :)