Billions of dollars are wasted each year on non-reproducible biomedical research. The EU-funded drug repurposing initiative REPO4EU has embraced Open Science both to revolutionize how we approach drug discovery and how we communicate the results. The goal is to increase the reproducibility, interoperability, and reliability of the scholarly literature to streamline discoverability which in turn supports bioinformatics approaches, in-silico drug discovery, and precision medicine. Drug Repurposing Central is more than an open access journal, it is an open science communication platform for the whole drug repurposing community covering outputs ranging from conference abstracts to preprints and full open access journals. Drug Repurposing Central is:
Open: Creative Commons 4.0 Open access license
Rapid: Preprints, Community run Diamond OA journal
Interoperable: DOI, ORCID, Institutional ID ROR, FundRef ID, RRID
Reproducible: Scientific rigor report prior to publication, NISO Data availability statements
Inclusive: Open community review, lay summaries, user collections
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