---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Feb 4, 2014 12:01 AM Subject: [FSFTN] Lecture on Open Source Drug Discovery, in association with Extra Mural Lecture, IIT Madras To: <[email protected]> Cc:
On January 28, the Extra Mural Lecture Team of IIT Madras in association with Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu, organised a lecture on Open Source Drug Discovery by Prof. Samir K Brahmachari, who is the Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Reserach (IC&SR). The lecture was part of Education Freedom Day celebrations, which encourages usage of Free Software and Free Educational Resources in education. The speaker talked about how the culture of Free and Open source software has extended into Drug Discovery and how Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD), a research consortium, is spearheading this development philosophy for providing affordable health care. He spoke about how Big Data Analysis and its usage in development of drug discovery has brought down the cost of drug discovery by reducing the need for drug trials. He further expanded on how crowd sourcing, from students and teachers alike, has helped in research towards drug discovery and genomics. Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu would like to thank Extra Mural Lecture Team, IIT Madras for the opportunity to organise this lecture. Regards, Exectuive Committee Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://fsftn.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_fsftn.org _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
