I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been particularly helpful.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > """Current in silico software is only accessible to large pharmaceutical > companies willing to pay obnoxious licensing fees. Students in every > country no matter their university, startup companies to Fortune 500s, and > even dedicated hobbyists will all have the same opportunity to design new > molecules to change the future of drug discovery," said Shkreli, co-founder > of Druglike.""" > > FWIW, my company's software is free to academics. This article hides the > fact that the majority of the economic barrier to entry is not licensing > but the cost of performing the large-scale simulations necessary to do > docking, md, generating conformers, or what-have-you. Drug discovery is > computationally hard and if AWS or whoever is going to ultimately charge > for compute then someone along the path will need to pay for that compute. > Just my two cents. > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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