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Short overiew showing ODDT a new mobile app in alpha for open drug discovery teams. Illustration of genesis and development so far.
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Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT): How our Collaboration Led to a New App For
Collaboration
Dr. Sean EkinsCollaborations in Chemistry, A division of Collaborations in
Communications, Inc.
Dr. Alex M. ClarkMolecular Materials Informatics, Inc.
When Given a New Challenge How do You Respond?
• Mid January Pistoia Alliance Ask for volunteers to present in a Dragon’s Den Scenario Feb 8th at the RSC
• Ideas that will transform Pharma R&D in 2014• So my natural response was :“If I am going to take part I want to create something real”
Why it is time to transform R&D – This is just one disease!
• Tuberculosis Kills 1.6-1.7m/yr (~1 every 8 seconds) equivalent to malaria• 1/3rd of worlds population infected!!!!• Extensively drug resistant increasing incidence• No new drugs in over 40 yrs • Drug-drug interactions and Cc-morbidity with HIV
• Recent years have seen increased investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) etc.
• But no impact on new clinical candidates except from pharma• Pipeline is thin and weak• No data sharing on the scale of malaria• Open Source effort in India (OSDD) but no real international traction• Disconnected efforts - CDD, Pharmas, Academia, NIH• BMGF & NIH do not coordinate TB efforts, not mandating open data.
– Result data hoarding – still not learning from failure – thousands of compounds screened and not accessible
Inspiration
• There are many 1000s of diseases and few with cures
• Science Online 2012 on open notebooks and data overload
• Could we create an app for science like Flipboard?
So I started sketching on my iPad..
How would we go about finding these teams?
Can we create virtual teams of open researchers – we need a central hub to
integrate open science data
Everything is on the cloud and the App becomes the glue for the team and projects
How the App should look – note the Flipboard inspiration
Sounding Boards are Very Important
• Antony J. Williams VP, Strategic development for ChemSpider at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Alex M. Clark is the founder of Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc.
• Alex said he could build the App
Within about 10 days Alex Created ODDT to present at the Pistoia meeting
Focused on Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Huntington’s Disease, Sanfilippo Syndrome, and Green Chemistry as topics in version 1
We did not win the competition but had useful feedback – the need to articulate the value proposition
The Value Proposition• The project is intended to bring together open data in a single aggregated
collection, and then facilitate forming open research teams around this data
• Disseminate important information to a highly relevant target audience
• Network and discover other researchers with complementary interests, and opportunities to collaborate
• Team members will be able to borrow and reuse a growing collection of existing Open data.
• The community as a whole can debate, contest or endorse data based on its quality.
• The app could also be used as a type of “lab notebook” whereby individual researchers share links (URLs) to content and the app aggregates these.
Getting to the Free Alpha Version
• Added more topics – Chagas Disease, leishmaniasis
• Added voting• Added Stats page• Added datasheet viewing• ….Find testers
Latest Layout9 Panels includes one on ODDT information
Can use multiple Twitter accounts Here is my icon
Stats summary
About App
Tap on a panel and look at Incoming contents
Click here to endorse or disapprove
Click here to follow hyperlink
Incoming is sorted by time of creation
Browse through multiple pages of tweets
Endorse, Disapprove and Comment
Endorse content or reject it
Recent contents
Click on image to open it
Recent isfactoids with a vote count of +1 or better
Content
Ranked content
Click on image to open it
Content is currently anything with a votecount of +1 or better, sorted by most popular first
Tap on a link or image
Be able to download content
Look at your own statistics
Exposing rare diseases – creating communities of research and sparking discussion
My tweets on recent analyses and ideas
My Retweets
Summary
• From idea to alpha testing version in a month• Well on way to delivering a tool for R&D and
the general public• Future versions will allow user to specify
topics
Coming Soon
• Rewards – badges• Image handling – HTML web crawling• Beta version• Presentation at ACS meeting• General release – Post ACS meeting• More ideas that may need funding to cover server etc• - Would you fund us if we posted ODDT on Kickstarter
or Petridish.org ??• Are there sponsors for specific pages or content?
Thank you Alpha testers
• Antony J. Williams• Hans De Winter • Chris Swain • Andrew Lang • Carlo Yuvienco • Paul Reinheimer • Michael S. Lajiness• Nancy Connell • Greta Beekhuis • Joe Hupcey III• Freundlich, Joel• Tanya Parrish• Peter Olinga ODDTPhoto for San Fillipo Syndrome courtesy
of Jill Wood www.jonasjustbegun.org
More Information
• Please contact us for further details or suggestions at: aclark@molmatinf.com and ekinssean@yahoo.com
• You can learn more about the ODDT app at:
http://www.scimobileapps.com/index.php?title=Open_Drug_Discovery_Teams
And frequent blogs at http://www.collabchem.com and http://cheminf20.org/
Data to Appify?
• If you have Drug Discovery data or ideas that could be turned into an app please let us know
• Alex Clark has developed these other Apps
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