Through this paper, we call for a distributed, internet-based collaboration to address one of the worst plagues of our present world, malaria. The spirit is a non-proprietary peer-production of information-embedding goods. And we propose to use the grid technology to enable such a world wide "open source" like collaboration. The first step towards this vision has been achieved during the summer on the EGEE grid infrastructure where 46 million ligands were docked for a total amount of 80 CPU years in 6 weeks in the quest for new drugs.
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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0611052,
title = {Grid Added Value to Address Malaria},
author = {V. Breton and N. Jacq and M. Hofmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0611052},
year = {2008}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Singapore, 16-19 may 2006, to appear in the proceedings