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. 2012 Sep 20;6(9):e1827. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001827

Table 2. CSIR's Open Source Drug Discovery Project at a glance.

Focus: Tuberculosis medicines (all aspects of discovery and development)
Year started: 2008
Funding: INR 1.5 billion (∼US $35 million), the Government of India
Number of contributors: 451
License: An original license, “OSDD Terms and Conditions”
Achievements to date: (1) Curated a re-annotation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome which generated a metabolome and protein-protein functional network to be used to identify potential drug targets (2) Generated 11 models for prediction of anti-tuberculosis activity (3) Created a chemical repository of small molecules
Number articles publishing the project's scientific findings: Five [21], [22], [38][40]
Evaluations/audits: None known