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Opinion and Comment

Nature Biotechnology 27, 320–321 (1 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/nbt0409-320

A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative

Leticia Ort|[iacute]| , Rodrigo J Carbajo , Ursula Pieper , Narayanan Eswar , Stephen M Maurer , Arti K Rai , Ginger Taylor , Matthew H Todd , Antonio Pineda-Lucena , Andrej Sali & Marc A Marti-Renom

To the Editor: Identifying proteins that are good drug targets and finding drug leads that bind to them is generally a challenging problem. It is particularly difficult for neglected tropical diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, where research resources are relatively scarce.