Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Can machines learn to discover drugs?

Take the right dataset, add an ingenious algorithm or two – and voilá! Your billion-euro blockbuster molecule is ready! AI-driven drug development is exciting investor interest, while Big Pharma is also asking what forms of artifical intelligence can be slotted in at what stages in the process. AI-powered drug repurposing has seen some candidates enter clinical stage testing, but it’s still unclear whether the technology is already powerful enough for de novo molecule discovery.