AI system predicts medicine’s hidden powers
August 27, 2007 | Source: NewScientist.com news service
University of British Columbia biologists are developing an AI system that can predict unknown antibiotic properties of existing drugs.
They first trained the system by feeding in the structures of thousands of known antibiotics, as well as drugs without any bacteria-killing abilities. The system then uses this information to examine the structure of drugs it hasn’t seen before and predict whether they will kill bacteria or not.