I am just going to put it here.
This wikipedia article is about an ancient Indian school of thought which believed that everything is composed of atoms, but the aggregation and nature of these atoms was predetermined by cosmic forces. They also believed in absense of "Free Will".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80j%C4%ABvika
> I don't see where they show that the cost of clinical trials etc. for getting drugs through the FDA is affected. From what I can tell, those are the largest costs involved. Especially considering that most of the drugs discovered, even using those advanced methods, fail in the trial phase after hundreds of millions invested.
Agreed, but I compared the costs of developing drugs 20 years ago. They had to synthesize and experiment with each and every drug. Not that's not the case. And most of the drugs which being developed now, use the principals I explained above. If clinical tests are proven successful then they file patents, but it's not an "innovative" process as per say. India has been working to get rid of such patent trolls for some time now.
> "Siphon money" or "capture the rewards of the value they provide"? Undermining global incentives to invest billions in research that could save hundreds of millions around the world does not seem like the "right direction". Not the first time the Indian government has done something selfish but shortsighted. (Pokhran comes to mind.)
Agreed, these kinds of researches has to be done, but not at cost of people's lives, I have explained statistics of people affected by AIDS above. It is a grave social injustice. These research and development processes are flawed in the sense that they cannot provide affordable alternatives to existing methods. These companies must adapt to affordable and agile development processes or someone else will replace them, remember "Mars Orbiter Mission" by ISRO.
And speaking of Pokhran, it was not a short sighted decision. India has Pakistan, an irresponsible nuclear capable neighbor, with whom India has been in state of war since 1947. Effects of Pokhran economic sanctions were not severe, because foreign trade of India constituted to 4% of it's GDP, while USA participation was only 10%. After Pokhran, under then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India achieved record breaking 6-7 % growth rate in GDP. A few problems could be pointed out, but it was not a short sighted decision at all.
I am not being a socialist, but I must add that such innovation and development should be done for the people, not American people, not British people, but keeping people of the world in mind. Please don't monopolize products which can save a lot of peoples lives.
You don't understand gravity of situation. India has third highest population of AIDS patients. Around 2.1 million people are infected[1]. That is twice the population of Cyprus. Around 170k children and adults lost their lives in 2009 [2]. India has 32.7 % of its population below poverty line [3]. That's an income below $1.25 per day. If they can't pay for the drugs doesn't make them less deserving.
And as far as drug developments go, due to GPU computing and molecular dynamics and monte carlo simulation methods, the cost of developing drugs has gone significantly down [4][5]. For starters they take a molecular structure, add or replace a functional group, and run the simulation with a particular protein structure. Drug development costs are not that high now, compared to twenty years ago. Most of the money goes in marketing.
If Government of India thinks more about it's 2.1 million than bunch of corporate companies trying to siphon money from wherever they can, then YES, they are in the right direction.
It seems that everything mentioned in the library could be done with golang easily. I am interested to see how H2O benchmarks with pure golang binaries.