Pharma associations and conflict of interest in article written by KS Jayaraman in Nature

In ethical journalism, one of the preconditions before publishing comments of people is to actually verify facts and make logical and informed decisions. KS Jayaraman, in his recent article on the Indian Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative did not probably check on the credentials and associations and of course conflicts in interest of the John Quackenbush modulated by his association with pharmaceutical companies in the United States. Even after thoroughly reading through the article. It would have been necessary to disclose the obvious conflict of interest in the statements quoted to give readers the right set of information. A casual search on Google revealed few of many associations, publicly disclosed. It would be obvious to assume the pharma sentiments against an Open Source Drug Discovery approach , very similar to the initial take on Open Source Software by major software enterprises.