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Science of the Science, Drug Discovery and Artificial Neural Networks |
Dr. Jigneshkumar L. Patel, Dr. Laxmanbhai D. Patel, Mr. Yagneshkumar L. Patel |
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Abstract: Drug discovery process many times encounters complex problems, which may be difficult to solve by human intelligence. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are one of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies used for solving such complex problems. ANNs are widely used for primary virtual screening of compounds, quantitative structure activity relationship studies, receptor modeling, formulation development, pharmacokinetics and in all other processes involving complex mathematical modeling. Despite advances and availability of such technology and understanding of biological systems, drug discovery is still a lengthy, expensive, difficult and inefficient process with low rate of new therapeutic discovery. In this paper, author is going to discuss the basic science from different angle which may be helpful to understand the drug discovery process and application of ANN to drug discovery to lead fruitful results. |
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