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this has changed in recent years as open-source approaches to product devel-
opment have proliferated.
As a result of the recent recession there is a lot of drug discovery and
development talent available now due to company lay-offs. If the software or
other tools to enable this workforce to be productive and collaborate were
available and they participated in the existing scientifi c collaboration net-
works, then there may be potential for enormous breakthroughs. Data are also
becoming available from pharmaceutical companies at an increasing rate as
part of precompetitive or other data-sharing initiatives [13, 24, 25]. The avail-
ability of collaborative computational technologies may help reengage unem-
ployed pharmaceutical researchers as their own virtual medicinal chemistry
or other departments. The timing may therefore be right for some of those at
the forefront of collaborations and software development of collaborative
computational technologies to develop the standards as progress in pharma-
ceutical research and development may depend on it.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dr. Barry Bunin is kindly acknowledged for discussions on this topic.
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