{"id":1274,"date":"2023-08-03T03:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlnews.dev\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:09:19","slug":"discobax-discover-perfect-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlnews.dev\/discobax-discover-perfect-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Best Medicine: DiscoBAX Helps Scientists Discover the Perfect Treatments!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scientists are using new computer programs to find the perfect medicine to cure diseases. They are using a computer program called DiscoBAX that will help them to study genes in Lab. The main aim is to find new medicines for sick people by using a powerful computer program that will allow scientists to make their research easier and faster. It is a powerful AI tool that will help them find the best drugs for making particular medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The computer program will use the best experiments to identify the most effective drug options. This way they can treat new diseases quickly and help people to live a healthy life. It is also done to make drug discovery easier to understand for everyone including young teenagers like you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research was done with the help of multiple researchers including Clare Lyle<\/a>, Arash Mehrjou<\/a>, Pascal Notin<\/a>, Andrew Jesson<\/a>, Stefan Bauer<\/a>, Yarin Gal<\/a>, and Patrick Schwab<\/a>. It was published at ICML 2023 Poster in July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old Way of Discovering Medicines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the past drug discovery was done manually by researchers and it was a long process. As scientists use, many methods to test various chemical compounds to find the best drugs for specific diseases. Each experiment was done in big labs and required multiple resources including funding, time, and a skilled researcher. The traditional approach to drug discovery was challenging for researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Scientists used to rely on limited knowledge and intuition that particular drugs will be effective for specific diseases. However, finding effective drugs were relatively low because less number of compound can be tested at a time. The manual approach used by scientists lacks advanced technology and data-driven approaches and this process was costly and slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding Better Medicines with DiscoBAX<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays drug discovery is becoming easy and fast because of artificial intelligence and advanced technology. Scientists use powerful AI tools such as an advanced model known as DiscoBAX that can make smarter decisions about which experiment to conduct to treat specific diseases. It contains a vast amount of data and performs analysis on that to see which drug is effective. It saves a lot of time and resources because scientists don’t have to test all compounds manually. Now they are more focused on their efforts to find promising candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n

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With the help of AI, researchers can also find hidden patterns and their relationships in the data. This helps them to understand biological pathways and mechanisms involved in diseases. Moreover, AI in drugs increases the chances of finding successful drugs faster. This approach is used when people face life-threatening diseases and need fast results to find suitable drugs to treat people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Exciting Path Ahead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The future capabilities of drug discovery will be an ongoing advancement in technology and scientific research. It will be used as personalized medicine to treat individuals’ genetic makeup to identify the most effective drugs for their condition.  As Artificial intelligence and machine learning have played a crucial role in finding the best suitable drug for patients. It will predict new drugs and provide treatment for those diseases that were challenging to address.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It will be used to target rare and orphan diseases that affect small number of people to death. It will act as a symbol of hope for those patient who didn’t find the best treatment in the past. It will be used to address global health issues such as outbreaks diseases and infections that have caused global epidemics in the world. As it will provide better outcomes and fewer adverse reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Availability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This research paper is open source and available on openreview.net<\/a> and you can also download it from here<\/a>. Its code is also present on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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