Data sharing and malaria

22 February 2012

Last week Nature published a story looking at the role data sharing has played in the fight against malaria.  It looks at how the publication of details for thousands of molecules, shown to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum in some way, by GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and the St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis in 2010, has facilitated the development of potential drugs to combat malaria.

You can read the full article here.