There are many foundations for rare disease and each try to accomplish development of drug’s for their rare disease. There are many steps involved in drug development and a critical feature is to make the science understandable and accessible so that scientists can understand the disease but also the possibility of coming up with a drug to help. This is especially difficult with autism since it is a polygenic disorder that will need more effort
The Autism research community does it exceptionally well. TThe SFARI GENE browser enables searching for specific genetic defects, mouse model availability and tools.
Take an example how well this data has been sorted and annotated
The big Parkinson’s disease groups such as American Parkinsons Disease association, Davis Phinney foundation for Parkinsons, Michael J Fox Foundation and Parkinsons Foundation have much to learn from this wonderful tool of accessible data that is easy to browse.
