Preparing for a Future Pandemic with Artificial Intelligence - Global Biodefense

A hallmark of artificial intelligence is its ability to learn from the past. As researchers advance and refine AI applications, it could increasingly become part of routine research, too--the type of work that supported the advances toward tackling this pandemic and can support the response to a future one, too. Finding meaning in a sea of messy or incomplete data is precisely what data scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) do. With expertise in applying graph-based machine learning, detailed molecular modeling, and explainable AI to questions of national security and basic science, PNNL researchers are now turning their artificial intelligence tools to the study of fundamental questions about treatments for COVID. What they are learning sharpens the tools available in the computational toolbox for responding quickly to a future pandemic.