Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning To Play an important Role In Fight Against COVID, Say Experts

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are helping analyse enormous amounts of data around the human genome and drug molecules, and these new-age technologies can play an important role in the battle against COVID-19, industry experts said on Saturday. Speaking at KnowDis Machine Learning Day, Avantika Lal – Senior Scientist (Deep Learning and Genomics) at NVIDIA – stated bigger data sets on genome sequences (DNA arrangement) are being obtained, and this data is being studied for multiple parameters. "As the cost of sequencing goes down, more and more people can get their genome sequence and in actuality, governments, research institutes and public health organisations around the world are attempting to sequence many thousands of people so as to be develop an idea of the genomes of the inhabitants of the countries," she said. Lal added that enormous data sets are collected that are extremely complicated and contain many different related sorts of information. These data sets may also help understand the mechanisms by which a specific disorder arises in people, or how does one identify patients who may respond differently or become more sensitive to a particular kind of medication or treatment, she further said.