On 29 January 2013, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Open Source Drug Discovery (CSIR-OSDD). The MoU, spanning three years, ...

OSDD is basically a system of pooling global information sources, expertise, facilities and management systems for drug discovery where individuals, groups and organisations pitch in as a combined ...

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched an innovative 'open source drug discovery' (OSDD) programme to combat infectious diseases that afflict the developing world. OSDD ...

Background: Open source drug discovery offers potential for developing new and inexpensive drugs to combat diseases that disproportionally affect the poor. The concept borrows two principle aspects ...

Hit by funds crunch since 2014, the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project — fronted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and conceived as a unique global programme to find ...

On a computer screen, UC Jaleel, a pharmaceutical researcher, shows me a complicated blue structure suspended against a black background. It looks like the outline of a giant lump of quartz. Jaleel ...

India's Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project has drawn criticism from geneticists for not publishing its first results in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers have also dismissed as hype some of ...

It is an idea that has not set the country on fire, but has been noticed all over the world. For a few years now, it has been knocking at the doors of international technology awards, but losing out ...

Crowdsourcing can boast of many success stories today, but in 2008, when the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched such an effort for drug discovery, there weren’t many. Four ...