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Looking ahead to AACR  

Drug Discovery World

Programme highlights The topic tracks include everything from clinical trials, drug development, immunology and bioinformatics, to global health, survivorship, prevention and tumour biology, to name just a few. Science ↔ Survivor Program As mentioned previously, AACR has a Scientist↔Survivor Program.

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Big data – charting a new path to drug discovery and development

Drug Discovery World

These different fundamental approaches (rules-based versus pattern recognition) to building these systems provide multiple opportunities to interject them into disease diagnostics and treatments. How AI and ML are influencing drug development Biopharma has experienced significant growth in using these technologies for the past 10 years.

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Article FDA Thank You Leaders at FDA share highlights and updates for drugs and biologics at RAPS Convergence

Agency IQ

Joneckis said that CBER has “some limited uses that we have seen in external submissions, mostly in the bioinformatics area,” but not as many as CDER. Regarding artificial intelligence (AI), an important topic at RAPS Convergence, the two centers discussed external and internal use cases.

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Breakthrough in Functional Annotation with HiFi-NN

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

HiFi-NN annotates protein sequences with enzyme commission (EC) numbers beating the current bioinformatics tool of choice ( blastp ), as well as other SoTA DL models, including CLEAN , in precision and recall (Table 1). Trained on eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs on a Lambda Labs instance with CUDA version 11.8 and NCCL version 2.14.3,

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

Alicia Martin and attendees of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust/GINGER Bioinformatics training in Kilifi, Kenya in September 2018. Alicia Martin, Allan Kalungi (Makerere University), and Lerato Majara (University of Cape Town) work together on a research project at the 2018 GINGER workshop held in London, UK.

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

Drug Discovery World

Developing therapeutic antibodies, one of the most successful approaches in drug development, involves identifying and characterising antibodies to be used as treatment against different types of cancers as well as autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases. Synthetic libraries for antibody drug discovery .

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