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TB R&D Weekly Update: Podcast Interview with Philip Bourne

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Summary: Dr. Philip Bourne is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Editor in Chief of PL0S Computational Biology. The WGND had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Bourne on a recent article published in PLoS Computational Biology in November 2010. In the interview, Dr. Bourne discusses his present research, use of structural bioinformatics to inform drug discovery, and the need for open access in research.

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