Schrödinger CEO Ramy Farid's hot takes contradict many dogmas in the AI #drugdesign industry:

That attaching the workhorse of the wet lab to the #AI cart will make it go; that designing small molecule drugs with AI will work at all; that all of the startups purporting to use AI are actually telling the truth.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/20/schrodinger-ramy-farid-drug-discovery-ai-physics/

The 2024 Chemistry #NobelPrize promised scientists would use "nature's multitool" (proteins) "for the greatest benefit to humankind."

Which companies are bringing that vision to life?

Read about 7 #protein #AI companies — some familiar, some new — @STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/05/who-to-know-series-7-biotech-companies-ai-protein-design/

Basecamp Research goes to volcanoes, the ocean, the tundra, the rainforest

all to provide genome sequences to feed the ever-ravenous beast of #AI models that companies hope will one day spit out biomolecules that Mother Nature has herself not yet birthed.

new @STAT https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/basecamp-research-ai-enzyme-protein-modeling/

Loving the "is #AI in #drugdesign overhyped" convo happening between Daphne Koller, Andreessen Horowitz's Vijay Pande and Derek Lowe at #STATBreakthrough

Lowe brings his hype-busting but realistic analysis that In The Pipeline readers know & love:

#introduction

Hi there! My name is Cedric and I'm a synthetic medicinal chemist. I design and develop new molecules hoping to find something useful to treat neglected tropical diseases such as #Malaria, #Leishmaniasis and #Chagas disease.

Currently I am a #MedicinalChemistry trainer at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at the University of Dundee, Scotland. My interests are #chemistry, #DrugDesign, #compchem and some #python on the side.

I'd better do another #introduction with the new influx of folx into #fediverse.

Hi, I'm Dave. I'm a staff #Scientist at a biomedical Research Institute in #London, #UK

I'm a #StructuralBiologist by training. I help run a group that studies #Kinase #signaling in human #health and #disease.

I do #Crystallography #CryoEM #Biophysics #DrugDesign and #Glycobiology. #Science