Reading the Labels on Mutant Mice (opens in new tab)

There are a couple of very interesting AI-assisted-chemistry paper out this week, and I have been trying to find the time to take them on. Let’s do this one first. It’s a report on “Co-Scientist”, a system to help propose hypotheses, potential mechanisms, et al. for biomedical discovery. The authors first applied this in what I think is a good test bed for it: drug repurposing. Let’s put aside the not-all-that-high success rates seen in these efforts, because nothing in this field has a high ...