Biopharma Insights - page 24

Hunting Dark Genes For Druggable Targets

About one in three human proteins is understudied. Even when quantifying data is available from multiple sources, "dark" genes and proteins are simply not well characterized (Figure 1). There may be …

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Pharma Companies Join Forces to Train AI for Drug Discovery Using Blockchain

The newly organized research project “MELLODDY” (Machine Learning Ledger Orchestration for Drug Discovery), involving ten large pharma companies and seven technology providers, is that kind of deals which can catalyze …

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"Hot" Research Areas in Drug Discovery - 2019

Things like gene editing, stem cells, immunotherapies and new types of biologics are now mega-trends in the pharmaceutical industry, widely covered in media, and I guess there is little doubt …

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New Liposome Treatment for Community-acquired Pneumonia

New research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, presents the first clinical results with CAL02 in patients suffering from severe pneumonia, the first cause of infectious mortality in the world. …

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Artificial Intelligence For Drug Discovery Use Cases At Mind the Byte

UPDATE: Mind the Byte ceased operations and was liquidated in 2019. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in the biopharmaceutical environment and nearly every pharma company in the …

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2018: AI Is Surging In Drug Discovery Market

Updated: 10.01.2019. Newly added content is marked in the text with "Update" sign. The idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate drug discovery process and boost a success rate …

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Democratizing Artificial Intelligence For Pharmaceutical Research

Over the last five years the interest of pharmaceutical professionals towards machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has measurably increased -- while only one “AI-related” research collaboration involving “big …

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Get Ready For “Super-platforms” In Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Research

What is a super-platform? A “super-platform” is a term which describes a relatively new phenomenon in a modern technological world -- an online-to-offline (O2O) type of digital infrastructure, which spans …

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Navigating In REAL Chemical Space To Find Novel Medicines (Now 3.8 Billion Molecules)

[Latest update: 27.07.2018] February 6 2018 will be marked in history as the day when an automobile embarked on a million year trip into far space. On that day, Falcon Heavy, …

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How Latest Drug Candidates Were Discovered? (Retrospective Review, 2016-2017)

Recently D.G.Brown and J.Boström of AstraZeneca published an insightful analysis, where they reviewed lead generation research strategies behind 66 small molecule clinical candidates published over 2016-2017 in Journal of Medicinal …

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Top 7 Trends In Pharmaceutical Research In 2018

Being under ever-increasing pressure to compete in a challenging economic and technological environment, pharmaceutical and biotech companies must continually innovate in their R&D programmes to stay ahead of the game. …

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2018 Brings A Surge Of Activity In The “AI For Drug Discovery” Space

(Last updated: 15.03.2018) The idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate drug discovery process and boost a success rate of pharmaceutical research programs has inspired a notable amount of …

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