Taking their cue from the druggable genome, a group of researchers have scoured publicly available…
Slowly but surely, biology is becoming computable at a relevant scale. And every little step brings us closer to overcoming life’s biggest challenges.

Open goals: will AlphaFold2’s ‘open science’ usher in a drug discovery revolution?
DeepMind has handed researchers the tools to implement AlphaFold2 and explore its ground-breaking potential for…

‘We are just starting to see the full spectrum of data science applications in agriculture’
With climate change and a growing world population to contend with, the agriculture industry is…

BioBERT: the new NLP model giving drug development teams a boost
With more than a million biomedical research papers published each year, no human researcher can…

Into the unknown: the quest to target the ‘undruggable’ proteome
A staggering 85% of the human proteome has been deemed ‘undruggable’. But, spurred on by…

BANDIT: using diverse data to measure drug similarity and predict drug targets
Similar small molecules tend to be similarly effective against disease, often sharing the same target.…

Taking out the trash: how protein degraders could help us fight disease
Of the 75%+ of human proteins not currently targetable by drugs, some are known cancer…

Sci-fi or AI? What will a supercharged pharmaceutical industry look like?
Fully digitised, AI-directed, in-silico drug discovery and development programs are not just a pipe dream…

Correcting confounding biases in genome-wide association studies
Linkage disequilibrium score regression is already being put to good use in drug discovery, by…

Double strength: how can we better predict effective, as-yet untried, drug combinations?
Some things just work better with two – but when it comes to drug combinations,…

Drug development: how predictive algorithms could save big pharma billions
Immense development costs and low success rates can make drug development look like a fool’s…

AlphaFold: from accuracy to application?
DeepMind AI’s impressive protein structure prediction accuracy hints at a huge future role in biomedical…
Get the newsletter
News on artificial intelligence, life science and beyond, once a month in your mailbox.