[FRIAM] stranger than fiction

[Gary Schiltz]

I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I
must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with
licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been
particularly helpful.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> """Current in silico software is only accessible to large pharmaceutical
> companies willing to pay obnoxious licensing fees. Students in every
> country no matter their university, startup companies to Fortune 500s, and
> even dedicated hobbyists will all have the same opportunity to design new
> molecules to change the future of drug discovery," said Shkreli, co-founder
> of Druglike."""
>
> FWIW, my company's software is free to academics. This article hides the
> fact that the majority of the economic barrier to entry is not licensing
> but the cost of performing the large-scale simulations necessary to do
> docking, md, generating conformers, or what-have-you. Drug discovery is
> computationally hard and if AWS or whoever is going to ultimately charge
> for compute then someone along the path will need to pay for that compute.
> Just my two cents.
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