Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models

Antony J. Williams; John Wilbanks; Sean Ekins

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002706

Loading metrics

Open Access

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models

Antony J. Williams ,

* E-mail: tony27587@gmail.com

Affiliation Royal Society of Chemistry, Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States of America
⨯
John Wilbanks,

Affiliation Consent to Research, Oakland, California, United States of America
⨯
Sean Ekins

Affiliation Collaborations in Chemistry, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States of America
⨯

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models

Antony J. Williams,
John Wilbanks,
Sean Ekins

Published: September 27, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002706

Reader Comments

Post a new comment on this article

Publisher's Note: Change public domain to "public"

Posted by ChemConnector on 01 Oct 2012 at 16:56 GMT

public domain
http://ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002706#article1.body1.sec1.p1

The term public domain does carry explicit meaning regarding the licensing of the data. This has been picked up by one of the readers of the article. We request a change of public domain to "public", with the inverted commas included, to clarify this situation.

No competing interests declared.

Subject Areas
?

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.
We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help!

Drug licensing
Is the Subject Area "Drug licensing" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Drug discovery
Is the Subject Area "Drug discovery" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Scientists
Is the Subject Area "Scientists" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Metadata
Is the Subject Area "Metadata" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Open data
Is the Subject Area "Open data" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Intellectual property
Is the Subject Area "Intellectual property" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Internet
Is the Subject Area "Internet" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Chemical deposition
Is the Subject Area "Chemical deposition" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models

Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models

Reader Comments

Post Your Discussion Comment

Why should this posting be reviewed?

Thank You!

Publisher's Note: Change public domain to "public"

Posted by ChemConnector on 01 Oct 2012 at 16:56 GMT