Summary:
«Nature has a vast store of medicinal substances. «Over 50 percent of all drugs today are inspired by nature,» says Gisbert Schneider, Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich. Nevertheless, he is convinced that we have tapped only a fraction of the potential of natural products. Together with his team, he has successfully demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) methods can be used in a targeted manner to find new pharmaceutical applications for natural products. Furthermore, AI methods are capable of helping to find alternatives to these compounds that have the same effect but are much easier and therefore cheaper to manufacture.»
Article written by Daniel Meierhans.
07|07|2021
Source:
Phys
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-harnessing-ai-drugs-nature.html