AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between diseases

By Jeffrey Skolnick, Regents' Professor; Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Benjamin P. Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University

In December, The Conversation hosted a webinar on AI’s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development.

Science and technology editor Eric Smalley interviewed Jeffrey Skolnick, eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Benjamin P. Brown, assistant professor of pharmacology…

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~	Ten years stolen: sister of detained Uyghur entrepreneur Ekpar Asat

~	India: Death penalty for nine police officers will not end custodial torture in India

~	The five best Lake District museums – recommended by a historian

~	Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data

~	Ireland’s Easter Rising: archives reveal hardship faced by the families of those killed in 1916

~	We teach at a Florida university that agreed to cooperate with ICE – and we worry that it is making our students feel less safe

~	Massive eye drop recall reflects ongoing issues with manufacturing and FDA inspection

~	1776’s Declaration of Independence inspired Washington’s troops to fight against the odds – and also helped bring in powerful allies

~	US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white

~	Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno-nationalism