Deep learning gives drug design a boost – Phys.org

When you take a medication, you want to know precisely what it does. Pharmaceutical companies go through extensive testing to ensure that you do.
With a new deep learning-based technique created at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering, they may soon get a better handle on how drugs in development will perform in the human body.
The Rice lab of computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has introduced Metabolite Translator, a computational tool that predicts metabolites, the products of interact…

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