The Open Source Malaria project is trying a different approach to curing malaria. Guided by open source principles, everything is open and anyone can contribute. To date a lot of people around the world have made contributions and the project is at a very exciting stage. Whilst everyone can see the compounds that have been made and the biological data, it is often spread over multiple web pages and can be tricky to link molecule with identifier with data. Over the last couple of months a significant effort has been put into populating a spreadsheet with all the information.

In addition to a Vortex script to access the information, there is now an iPython notebook that also shows how to import the data. Why not give it a try, do some analysis and build predictive models and then contribute your findings and suggestions to the Open Source Malaria project.