Fernando Huerta (RISE Bioscience & Materials, SE) Alexander Minidis (Collaborative Drug Discovery - CDD VAULT, Sweden) How much information does the scientists need to design new potential drugs? A thorough overview of public scientific information sources (open access) and methods to collect, process, analyse and visualize this information will be presented. A direct application of such free available information in conjunction with freeware will be described in relation with the efforts of the scientific community to find effective medicines for the ZIKA virus.