A Joint Front: Open Source Pharma
An article on the Business Today (India) website noted that an open source drug discovery program allows capabilities to be linked and used, at negligible cost. India has already taken a step in this direction. Bill Gates, who built his empire on proprietary software, tweeted that open innovation is the way forward for drug discovery in neglected diseases. The next decade will be the age of massive digital transformations in healthcare, and the pharmaceutical industry will feel the need to embrace the open source ideology.
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