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Top 6 AI-Powered Drug Discovery Tools In 2021

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Life sciences have benefitted immensely from advances in artificial intelligence. AI has a lot of potential to enhance and accelerate drug discovery -- the process of identifying potential medicines. In January 2020, British start-up Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical firm Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma used AI to develop a drug for OCD. The typical drug development processes take around five years to reach the trial stage, but this drug took only a year. Cheminformatics has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade.