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Is there something equivalent but for medicine? Essentially AI assisted medicine generation. If not, does anyone know what the field name is (I thought it was m

• klmr 8y ago
  You might be interested in computer-aided drug design [1], in particular computational target prediction. It’s a fairly big field (both in academic research and in commercial application), and not exactly new. This is technically a subfield of molecular biology but that term is extremely broad. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design#Computer-aided_drug_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design#Computer-aided_dru...
• sjg007 8y ago
  Yes. People are interested in protein-drug interactions (protein ligand in general) as well as drug drug interactions... Small molecule structures (now helped by a fast cryoMR procedure). I bet the fast cryoMR stuff will be adapted to proteins too so we can get very good deep NN ML models in the very near future.
• jfarlow 8y ago
  That kind of thing is generally thought of as machine-learning, or AI assisted "Drug Discovery", but there's not a great name for the field at large. Because there are so many different kinds of 'medicine' at this point, there are a number of companies that use similar tools for various definitions of medicine: Small Molecules: http://www.twoxar.com/ http://www.twoxar.com/ & http://atomwise.com/ http://atomwise.com/ Antibodies: http://www.antiverse.io/ http://www.antiverse.io/ Multi-Domain proteins: https://serotiny.bio https://serotiny.bio (my company)