{"id":239476,"date":"2026-06-23T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/feeding-data-to-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:22:07","slug":"feeding-data-to-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/feeding-data-to-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Feeding data to AI to speed up drug discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feeding-data-to-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug.<\/p>\n<p>The process is slow and labor-intensive, and many of the reactions depend on hard-to-source metals that act as essential catalysts.<\/p>\n<p>While artificial intelligence is helping speed up the process of drug discovery, it can only learn from the data available, and when it comes to chemical reactions, the large, high-quality data sets needed to train powerful AI tools aren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug. The process is slow and labor-intensive, and many of the reactions depend on hard-to-source metals that act as essential catalysts. While artificial intelligence is helping speed up the process of drug discovery, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239476","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}