Data Scientists Should Do Drugs!

Now that this attention-grabbing headline has drawn you in, let me clarify. Data scientists should not partake in illegal drugs. Data scientists should participate in pharmacological research, as artificial intelligence and machine learning can add value, even when the data scientist does not have a background or training in physics, biology, chemistry, or medicine. The CAIA Association and FDP Institute had a recent conversation with Woody Sherman, the CSO of Silicon Therapeutics. While many of us can be left behind in a discussion of computational drug discovery, it seems that almost everyone today is a budding epidemiologist trying to better understand the prevention and spread of COVID-19, so let's continue.