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Mind and machine in drug design

After a difficult start, medicinal chemists are now ready to embrace AI-based methods and concepts in drug discovery, explains Gisbert Schneider.

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Fig. 1: Cartoon representation of the drug design cycle as the interplay of inductive and deductive reasoning.

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I am grateful to the many colleagues, co-workers and students with whom I had the privilege to work on drug design with machine intelligence. This work was financially supported by the Novartis Forschungsstiftung (FreeNovation: AI in Drug Discovery) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 205321_182176 to G.S.).

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