Well Sourceforge/software development is certainly applicable to the development of tools for bioinformatics purposes, but bioinformatics hasn’t really solved any problems as it relates to disease, there still is a wet lab component.  So the question remains how does drug development occur in a virtual environment.  Let’s say I had just done a clustering algorithm on phylogenetic profiles across 82 genomes.  I had the clustering data, I had my experiment algorithm and method but now I need help in deciding what and how to both store that information in a meaningful way and then access additional information that in combination with my results could be useful.  So let’s say we wanted to focus on a particular tropical disease and it is commonly known the series of genes, both regulating and protein coding.  How do we collaborate further to design a drug?

 

-Will

 

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From: tdi-discuss-bounces@salilab.org [mailto:tdi-discuss-bounces@salilab.org]On Behalf Of Will Rosellini
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So does anyone here have experience in virtual software development, open source development etc...seems like the TDI needs a plethora of bioinformatics people who can come up with a technical framework to allow contributions from people across the globe.  The Open Source Biology project, Cambia's is trying but they are running into the same troubles. 



Does anyone know of projects, other than software development that have occurred entirely virtually?



-Will