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Artificial intelligence has garnered immense applications in various industries including banking, manufacturing, and healthcare. A branch of healthcare that is benefitting from Artificial Intelligence is the ‘Pharmaceutical Industry’. It is met with new challenges in the face of new viruses, mutated antigens, drug-resistant strains, etc. on a daily basis. Additionally, it has become common to see the rendition of once eradicated diseases such as polio. Under these conditions, traditional R&D can be very time consuming and costly.
Traditional drug discovery methods are objective driven and work well for targets whose structure and interactions in the cell are understood. However, most of the cellular transactions have complex pathways.
In order to overcome these challenges, Artificial Intelligence-powered drug discovery offers an effective alternative. Following are the ways in which AI transforms the drug discovery process:
- AI-powered drug discovery follows a data-driven approach that is based on the vast patient datasets. The data is studied and categorized by complex algorithms into understandable information for facilitating drug discovery at a faster pace.
- It applies machine learning to study new incoming data for recognizing new opportunities and information.
- The algorithms search through vast databases of compound structures to identify a compound that can bind to the antigen protein (even if the structure of the target protein has not been yet identified). This saves a lot of time when compared to manual screening of compounds that can act as drug candidates.
How It Works?
- The first step is to take sample from people with and without a disease. Also, samples are taken from people who are at different stages of disease progression.
- The sample data is then extracted into genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics for identifying the target.
- AI and Machine Learning software study the information to identify any differences between the disease and non-disease states, proteins, and other features that may impact the disease state.
- The identified proteins and metabolites are considered to be target candidates by the software.
- The candidates are then queried against databases of patents, publications, chemical libraries, clinical trials, and approved drugs. This facilitates a precision-medicine approach by offering a means to triage the patients in an in-silico manner before entering a clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of a potential drug.
Benefits Of AI-Driven Drug Discovery:
- AI does not rely on predetermined targets which rules out the chances of subjective bias.
- AI amalgamates the latest technology in biology and computing to develop algorithms for drug discovery.
- AI offers high predictive power to define meaningful interactions in drug screening. This reduces the chances of pursuing false potential drugs.
- AI moves drug discovery to a virtual lab where screening results can be obtained at a faster pace and efficiency.
For more information on transforming drug discovery through AI, call Centex Technologies at (972) 375 - 9654.
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