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Genentic Engineering & Biotechnology News | AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype

The past few years have seen several flashy demonstrations of how artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may transform biomedical research, particularly with respect to drug discovery.

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Foundational partnership with Paradigm4 enables Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to rapidly accelerate RNAi- based drug target discovery

25th October 2022: Paradigm4’s REVEAL Integrative Analytics platform enables Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to discover novel, genetically-validated drug targets from population scale biobank genotype-phenotype datasets and underlies the extraordinary pace and productivity of Alnylam’s RNAi therapeutics pipeline. Using Paradigm4’s cloud-based scientific analytics platform and data from the UK Biobank, Alnylam has identified

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Clinical Omics | Pushing the Proteomics envelope

More sensitive technology spurs proteomic and metabolomic biomarker identification, clinical use. (Complete article on page 21)

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IPI || Why the right approach to data management will enable the potential of small-molecule RNA sodifiers as drug targets to be fulfilled

Over the past 5 decades or so, the growing understanding that RNA can influence protein function through routes other than direct translation has opened the prospect of discovering small molecules for tackling diseases in novel ways.