Open data in drug discovery and development: lessons from malaria

There is a growing consensus that drug discovery thrives in an open environment. Here, we describe how the malaria community has embraced four levels of open data — open science, open innovation, open access and open source — to catalyse the development of new medicines, and consider principles that could enable open data approaches to be applied to other disease areas. There is a growing consensus that drug discovery thrives in an open environment. Here, we describe how the malaria community has embraced four levels of open data — open science, open innovation, open access and open source — to catalyse the development of new medicines, and consider principles that could enable open data approaches to be applied to other disease areas.