The areas that will initially be covered by OSDDm include:

1. Community Interaction Portal
   
2. Drug target identification and validation.
3. Filtering screening data for lead identification, optimization and candidate drug selection.
4. Establishment and validation of in vitro and in vivo screening systems, evaluation of drug kinetics and drug-drug interaction.
5. Purification and identification of anti-malarial compounds from plants under traditional use.   
6. Antimalarial drug development (pre-clinical and phase I clinical studies)