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Crowd sourcing in drug discovery

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Crowd sourcing is emerging as an open-innovation approach to promote collaboration and harness the complementary expertise of academic and industrial partners in the early stages of drug discovery. Here, we highlight examples of such initiatives and discuss key success factors.

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The authors thank S. Schoepe for her valuable contributions in editing the manuscript.

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  1. Monika Lessl and Khusru Asadullah are at Global Drug Discovery Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Muellerstraße 178, 13342 Berlin, Germany,

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  2. Justin. S. Bryans is at the Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, MRC Technology, 1–3 Burtonhole Lane, London NW7 1AD, UK,

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  3. Duncan Richards is at GlaxoSmithKline, Academic Discovery Performance Unit, Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage SG1 2NY, UK,

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Monika Lessl and Khusru Asadullah are employees of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. Duncan Richards is an employee at GlaxoSmithKline. Justin. S. Bryans does not declare any competing financial interests.

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Lessl, M., Bryans, J., Richards, D. et al. Crowd sourcing in drug discovery. Nat Rev Drug Discov 10, 241–242 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3412

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