How open-source medicine could prepare us for the next pandemic
The old drug discovery system was built to benefit shareholders, not patients. But a new, Linux-like platform could transform the way medicine is developed—and energize the race against COVID-19.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Open medicine.... Interesting concept. What would be open sourced? Anonymized medical records? I think the genome is a start.... But proteomes and metabolomes would have to follow....
[metabolomicsworkbench.org]
Made a video of open source tools and techniques that could help us with this a while ago.....
[mediasite.video.ufl.edu]
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But a human rights lawyer named Jaykumar Menon is now building out a platform where scientists and researchers can freely access technological tools for researching disease, share their discoveries, launch investigations into molecules or potential drugs, and find entities to turn that research into medicine. If the platform succeeds, it would allow drugs to succeed on their merit and need, rather than their ability to be profitable.
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