AI for target discovery: the start of a long road

It’s impossible to think about a future of drug discovery that doesn’t involve AI, but even aside from when the explosion of high-quality drug candidates will occur, the question is how exactly to leverage the technology in the short and long term to gain the most benefit.

Within discovery research, AI has gained the most traction in protein and small molecule design, but the technology arguably holds even greater promise in improving the efficiency and success rates of target selection. ...