"China is very interested in building its own software industry and open source can be viewed by their operators and adapted without having to do the whole designfromscratch, " he points out.
It is hoped that using a parasite's DNA to hunt for weaknesses and then finding drugs to match will be more economical than trying to design drugs fromscratch.
If we were creating the Retail Prices Index fromscratch, the National Statistician, Jil Matheson, admits that we would not design it the way it is now.