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Review
. 2020 Aug 25:9:1043.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.26084.1. eCollection 2020.

Open science approaches to COVID-19

Edwin G Tse  1 , Dana M Klug  1 , Matthew H Todd  1
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Review

Open science approaches to COVID-19

Edwin G Tse et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

In only a matter of months, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world. The global impact of the disease has caused significant and repeated calls for quick action towards new medicines and vaccines. In response, researchers have adopted open science methods to begin to combat this disease via global collaborative efforts. We summarise here some of those initiatives, and have created an updateable list to which others may be added. Though open science has previously been shown as an accelerator of biomedical research, the COVID-19 crisis has made openness seem the logical choice. Will openness persist in the discovery of new medicines, after the crisis has receded?

Keywords: COVID-19; Sars-CoV-2; open access; open data; open science; open source.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests were disclosed.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Application of open science for COVID-19 vaccine/treatment development.
Representative examples from the development timeline include the COVID Moonshot project, the ICR canSAR tool, the Diamond XChem fragment screen and preprint servers.
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