Japan Venture Taps ‘Deep Learning’ To Improve Drug Discovery

The Japanese peptide venture Interprotein is tapping into artificial intelligence technology with the hope of improving the efficiency and accuracy of its drug discovery efforts.

While the initial image might be one of robots moving test tubes around or some intransigent HAL-like computer questioning human commands, the reality of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to drug discovery is rather more mundane - but hopefully productive - for Interprotein.

The Japanese peptide R&D-focused venture's new collaborative agreement with Tokyo-based A.I. Squared to develop the application of AI to the drug discovery process is designed rather to overcome some of...

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