The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in India to raise awareness of the importance of cheminformatics - or eScience - in accelerating the discovery of novel therapies for neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria.
The RSC will work in partnership with India's CSIR on an Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative for the next three years.
The initiative aims to advance the discipline of cheminformatics to find novel, faster-acting and more effective treatments for tuberculosis and malaria. It will focus on building a joint online repository of real and virtual molecular structures, along with developing free-to-use software tools for drug discovery and development.
RSC Immediate Past President, Professor David Phillips, is in India to announce the MoU.
