The Tropical Disease Initiative in a project for the open-source development of drugs to treat tropical diseases. (For background, see the excellent article in last month's PLoS Medicine.) TDI has just launched a wiki. Quoting from the wiki: 'The Tropical Diseases Initiative (TDI) is... "...a decentralized, community-wide effort that (a) searches parasite genomes for new targets, (b) finds chemicals that bind to known targets, (c) evaluates each candidate drug's chances for success, and (d) selects the most promising candidates for further development." It's currently just an idea. The aim of this wiki is to see if we can turn it into more than that, starting with a website.' (PS: I can't recall seeing an earlier example of a wiki devoted to serious, original research on a topic in the natural sciences.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/08/2005 01:46:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
