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 |