Pistoia toolkit to build better AI, machine learning, and support the Lab of the Future

The Pistoia Alliance has launched the FAIR Implementation project with backing from pharmaceutical companies, including Roche, Astra Zeneca, and Bayer. The FAIR guiding principles – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable – were published in 2016 as a collaborative effort among academia, industry, and others. The principles for data management and stewardship place "specific emphasis on enhancing the ability of machines to automatically find and use the data, in addition to supporting its reuse by individuals," the authors write. However, earlier this year, a paper discussed the challenges to implementing the principles. With the launch of its FAIR Implementation project, The Pistoia Alliances hopes to help the industry to undertake "digital transformation" with a toolkit it said will improve data management to enable better artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and support the Lab of the Future.