[davidblondeau]

My company, Collaborative Drug Discovery (https://www.collaborativedrug.com) has been developing and offering a secure collaborative data sharing environment for drug discovery data (chemistry and SAR data). There are other tools in the space as well though labs and companies are slow to change. The sector is very secretive and closed so it takes time for habits to change.

Some factors have been promoting more collaboration and data sharing:

* The increasing cost of research

* Specialization and the emergence of micro-biotech (5 people biotech startups)

* Foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that push for more collaboration amongst recipients of their grants (disclaimer: Collaborative Drug Discovery has received grants from the Gates foundation as well)