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Computational Chemistry

SRI and Exscientia partner on AI-assisted cancer drug discovery

by Craig Bettenhausen
May 8, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 18

 

An array of little tubes, cylinders, and metal boxes.
Credit: SRI International
The flow synthesis module of SRI's system can prepare molecules at the gram scale based on AI-planned routes.

A new partnership aims to design and synthesize oncology drugs using artificial intelligence (AI). Exscientia, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2017, designs drug candidates using an AI-assisted approach. But the molecules have been synthesized the old-fashioned way. Now Exscientia will deploy SRI’s SynFini system, which uses AI to plan synthetic routes and executes them on a flow-chemistry platform. Combining the technologies has “tremendous potential to further accelerate the oncology drug-discovery process,” says Nathan Collins, SRI’s chief strategy officer.

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