I think that if you were to actually try Amber you'd realize that the Amber
team already provides users with full source code. You might also want to
look into existing efforts at Amber GUIs.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Soumendranath Bhakat <
bhakatsoumendranath.gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Amber developers and Users;
>
> Recently Open Source Drug Design becomes an alternative to start a patent
> free world for greater human welfare. With the development of CSIR OSDD,
> Open Source Drug Design and In SIlico Molecules (www.insilicomolecule.org
> ),
> Open Wet Ware.
>
> People with small money, some stupid people like us who are working to
> maintain the website using scholarship money to develop a NCE or new
> softwares and interfaces which will be free for academic use and whose
> source code will always be open.
>
> It is because of patent system, software monopoly the computer aided drug
> design suffered a lot. Because every one is not Delano to give PyMol for
> free with source code open.
>
> Read this http://sbhakat2011.blogspot.com/
>
> We have seen huge development in MD stuffs because of the open source
> nature of GROMACS but people dont have money to maintain the web intefaces
> and server.Also cool softwares like Desmond, AMBER never make their source
> code available. Thus they are stopping people for developing other cool
> stuffs as they are restricting the use which prompted lack of creativity.
>
> We want to make a best ever Open Source Drug Discovery suite by combining
> certain Open Source Softwares. We are now in our way to make Open Source
> docking softwares with a new Rolling Ball technique (lacking Autodock
> source code for reference). We also want to try an academic free GUI of
> AMBER for which we need AMBER's source code.
>
> These integration of softwares on fly will give computer aided drug
> discovery a huge boost. We wish to open an Open Source Drug Design contest
> to make first new chemical entity for neglected tropical disease CHIKV
> virus.
>
>
> We therefore humbly request AMBER community to give us the access of
> AMBER's source code to open a NEW academic free on fly web based GUI which
> will boost the drug discovery plan. We will also like to discuss about this
> epic project with AMBER developers.
>
> It probably will be a better project than World Community Grid Project
> targeting for the first time to develop the very first new chemical entity
> for CHIKV virus.
>
> We also like to hear from molecular modellers specially AMBER developers on
> the AMBER source code opinion for AMBER GUI for academic free version.
>
> I hope AMBER community will get inspired from Jonas Salk and will make
> AMBER an Open Source project to make interactive GUIs and other crucial bug
> fixes and development for greater human welfare.
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards;
> Co Founders
> Open Source Drug Design and In Silico Molecules
> www.insilicomolecule.org
>
> ONE WORLD, ONE SCIENCE, NO MONOPOLY
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