{"id":182267,"date":"2024-02-08T09:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-code-chatgpt-to-design-new-medicine"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:23:30","slug":"scientists-code-chatgpt-to-design-new-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-code-chatgpt-to-design-new-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-code-chatgpt-to-design-new-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To create the breakthrough model, researchers integrated two cutting-edge #AI techniques for the first time in the fields of #bioinformatics and #Cheminformatics : the well-known \u201cEncoder-Decoder Transformer architecture\u201d and \u201cReinforcement Learning via Monte Carlo Tree Search\u201d (RL-MCTS).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Generative artificial intelligence platforms, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, grabbed headlines in 2023. But GenAI can do more than create collaged images and help write emails\u2014it can also design new drugs to treat disease.<\/p>\n<p>Today, scientists use advanced technology to design new synthetic drug compounds with the right properties and characteristics, also known as \u201cde novo drug design.\u201d However, current methods can be labor-, time-, and cost-intensive.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by ChatGPT\u2019s popularity and wondering if this approach could speed up the drug design process, scientists in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University in Orange, California, decided to create their own GenAI model, detailed in a new paper, \u201cDe Novo Drug Design using Transformer-based Machine Translation and Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Monte-Carlo Tree Search,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8247\/17\/2\/161\">appearing<\/a> in the journal Pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To create the breakthrough model, researchers integrated two cutting-edge #AI techniques for the first time in the fields of #bioinformatics and #Cheminformatics : the well-known \u201cEncoder-Decoder Transformer architecture\u201d and \u201cReinforcement Learning via Monte Carlo Tree Search\u201d (RL-MCTS). Generative artificial intelligence platforms, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, grabbed headlines in 2023. But GenAI can do more than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}