From the lab to the pharmacy: How AI is speeding up the discovery of new drugs

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From the lab to the pharmacy: How AI is speeding up the discovery of new drugs
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It takes millions of dollars to take a drug from the lab to the pharmacy. Now, artificial intelligence could soon help figure out which drugs will work and which ones will not.

It takes millions of dollars to take a drug from the lab to the pharmacy. Now, artificial intelligence could soon help figure out what drugs will work and which ones will not.It takes millions - if not, billions - of dollars to take a drug from the lab to the pharmacy.

"We can cut down the experiments as well as cut down the time," said Dr. Sudipta Seal, a professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida. It translates the complex interactions at each drug protein-binding site into words. The AI model then analyzes that language to learn which part of a virus protein a drug will bind to. With 97% accuracy, it can predict how well a drug will work.

It's called AttentionSiteDTI and the model is ready to be used now for anyone developing a new drug at no cost.

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