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AI-designed COVID-19 drug nominated for preclinical trial

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: The next.

This one is about to start the stage more accurately known as "Try in a petri dish to see whether it does anything interesting at all".

Something like 99% of compounds are discarded at this point. Sadly, most of these negative results are never published so other researchers spend a lot of time re-testing the exact same failures...

If this AI can improve that preclinical failure rate then it becomes interesting, but until then it's no different to tossing random compounds at the wall to see if any stick.

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