Will Biologics Surpass Small Molecules In The Pharmaceutical Race?
The first biologics drug, humanized insulin (5.8 kDa), became available in 1982 following the advent of biotechnology, and it marked …
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Covid-19 Vaccines in Development and Use
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is a …
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[Interview] Using Generative AI to Rapidly Identify Novel Therapies for COVID-19
Generative models have become one of the hottest areas in de-novo molecular design over just several years, basically revolutionizing our …
Annual Summit on Drug Discovery Chemistry
The Annual Summit on Drug Discovery Chemistry primarily works on the theme “Scientific Congress on pursuit of wisdom in Drug …
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[Interview] This Vancouver-based Startup Plans To Boost Drug Design With AI
Variational AI is a newly formed artificial intelligence (AI)-driven molecule discovery & drug design startup out of Vancouver, British Columbia, …
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 …
"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 …
Confluence of Technologies Can Bring “Virtual Pharmacology” to the Next Level
In 1970-80s, the idea of virtual screening was regarded as a conceptual way to substitute costly and time-consuming experimental “screen-everything-you-have” …
Presenting a New Paradigm for Drug Discovery: Combining Computational Biophysics and AI through MatchMaker
In this Special Perspective, our fourth in an ongoing series, we will be presenting MatchMaker™, a novel deep proteome screening …
ConstruQt - a Reliable Molecular Structure Predictor in the Cloud
Since August Kekulé’s proposal for the tetrahedral configuration of carbon or his more famous realization that benzene was a cyclic …
How Big Pharma Adopts AI To Boost Drug Discovery
(Last updated 08.10.2018) The type of artificial intelligence (AI) which scares some of the greatest minds, like Elon Musk and …
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 …
