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ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2017

Is Open Science the Future of Drug Development?

Daniel L Shaw

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Review in The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Daniel L ShawYale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional drug development models are widely perceived as opaque and inefficient, with the cost of research and development continuing to rise even as production of new drugs stays constant. Searching for strategies to improve the drug discovery process, the biomedical research field has begun to embrace open strategies. The resulting changes are starting to reshape the industry. Open science-an umbrella term for diverse strategies that seek external input and public engagement-has become an essential tool with researchers, who are increasingly turning to collaboration, crowdsourcing, data sharing, and open sourcing to tackle some of the most pressing problems in medicine. Notable examples of such open drug development include initiatives formed around malaria and tropical disease. Open practices have found their way into the drug discovery process, from target identification and compound screening to clinical trials. This perspective argues that while open science poses some risks-which include the management of collaboration and the protection of proprietary data-these strategies are, in many cases, the more efficient and ethical way to conduct biomedical research.

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Drug DiscoveryBiomedical ResearchDrug IndustryCrowdsourcingDrug DiscoveryDrug IndustryOpen SciencePharmaceutical ResearchReproducibility of ResultsResearch DesignResearch Ethics

Identifiers

PMID28356902
PMCPMC5369032

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