The Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) Mobile App For Malaria

<p>The Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) project uses a free mobile app as user entry point http://tinyurl.com/6l9qy4f. The app has a magazine-like interface, and server-side infrastructure for hosting chemistry-related data as well as value added services. The project is open to participation from anyone and provides the ability for users to make annotations and assertions, thereby contributing to the collective value of the data to the engaged community. The infrastructure for the app is currently based upon the Twitter API and uses Google Alerts RSS feeds as a useful proof of concept for a real time source of publicly generated content. </p> <p>We now highlight how ODDT can be used as an electronic notebook to share new scientific data on malaria and engage this research community by following #malaria using Twitter and Google Alerts.