title: Collaborative drug discovery for More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB).
abstract: Neglected disease drug discovery is generally poorly funded compared with major diseases and hence there is an increasing focus on collaboration and precompetitive efforts such as public-private partnerships (PPPs). The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) project is one such collaboration funded by the EU with the goal of discovering new drugs for tuberculosis. Collaborative Drug Discovery has provided a commercial web-based platform called CDD Vault which is a hosted collaborative solution for securely sharing diverse chemistry and biology data. Using CDD Vault alongside other commercial and free cheminformatics tools has enabled support of this and other large collaborative projects, aiding drug discovery efforts and fostering collaboration. We will describe CDD's efforts in assisting with the MM4TB project.
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA; Collaborations in Chemistry, Inc., 5616 Hilltop Needmore Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526, USA. Electronic address: ekinssean@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ekins
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA.
authors.forename: Anna Coulon
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Spektor
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA; Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc., 1900 St. Jacques #302, Montreal H3J 2S1, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Alex M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA.
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dole
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc., 1633 Bayshore Highway, Suite 342, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA.
authors.forename: Barry A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Bunin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D055808:Drug Discovery; D006801:Humans; D000069550:Machine Learning; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents